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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 ...
On June 6, the Imperial Japanese Navy invaded the Aleutian Islands, occupying Kiska on that day and Attu Island the next. This was significantly the first time United States soil was occupied by a foreign power since the War of 1812, and was the only two invasions of the United States during World War II. Despite the U.S. not posting any forces ...
Fearing a Japanese attack on other Aleutian Islands and mainland Alaska, the U.S. government evacuated hundreds more Aleuts from the western chain and the Pribilofs, placing them in internment camps in southeast Alaska, where many died of measles, influenza and other infectious diseases which spread quickly in the overcrowded dormitories. In ...
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in East and South East Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania.
Aleutian Islands: 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943, the Aleutian Islands campaign; Northern Solomons: 22 February 1943 – 21 November 1944, part of the Solomon Islands campaign; Eastern Mandates: 31 January – 14 June 1944, allied landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Aleutian Islands campaign" ... Aleutian World War II National Historic Area;
Planned Axis partition of Turkey (according to Treaty of Sèvres borders, in order to seizure Axis control of Anatolia) between Bulgaria (East Thrace), Greece (Turkish aegean islands and maybe former Hellenic Asia Minor), Vichy France-Syria (Alexandretta, Syrian Northern Sanjaks, Cilicia and east-central Anatolia), Iraq (Turkish Kurdistan ...
The Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is located on four islands in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge . It was designated as part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument by an executive order of George W. Bush on December 5, 2008, with ...