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She spent her entire career serving in the Aleutian Islands during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. [1] YP-86 was decommissioned on 27 June 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 July 1944. [1] On 6 October 1944, she was transferred to the United States Maritime Administration. [1]
The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...
The boat had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The 104-foot was large enough to operate in the open ocean easily. Some 104-foot boats worked in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands; these had cold weather options installed. The cold weather options had a heating system, ice protection on the hull, and insulation.
In a warm-up cruise, prior to her next West-Pac deployment, Currituck made an Alaskan voyage that spanned the Aleutian Islands, operating with VP-47 equipped with P5Ms. Currituck, on this operation, provided the rare opportunity to visit the port of Anchorage, Alaska, and became the largest ship ever to visit that port. Fifty hours at a buoy ...
1943-1944: Battles/wars: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Kiska Army Airfield is an abandoned military airfield, first Japanese and then US, on Kiska island, ...
The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab), [4] which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The ...
Aleutian Islands War; Red White Black & Blue - feature documentary about The Battle of Attu in the Aleutians during World War II; Soldiers of the 184th Infantry, 7th ID in the Pacific, 1943-1945; World War II Aleutian Islands: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine from the United States Army Center ...