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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 ...
Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, 1942-1945 Transferred to Alaskan Air Command; Became Davis Air Force Base (1947); Transferred to Department of the Navy, 1950 as Naval Air Station Adak Amchitka Army Airfield , 51°22′37″N 179°15′23″E / 51.37694°N 179.25639°E / 51.37694; 179.25639 ( Amchitka
The Aleutian Islands campaign was successfully completed on August 24, 1943. [4] In that month, a strategic intercept station was established on the island, which remained until February 1945. [7] Most combat squadrons were withdrawn by early 1944, the 11th Fighter Squadron becoming the headquarters garrison of the base until the end of the war.
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WWII veteran Tony Battaglia of Honesdale turned 100 in June. He shares his experiences as a medic in the largely forgotten Aleutian Islands Campaign.
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.
Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign. On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japanese forces since June 1942. However, the Japanese had secretly abandoned the island two weeks earlier, and so the Allied landings were unopposed.