On 7 June 1942, six months after the United States entered World War II, the 301st Independent Infantry Battalion from the Japanese Northern Army landed unopposed on Attu. The landings …

2009年11月17日 · In the Battle of Attu, the main conflict of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II (1939-45), American and Japanese armies fought from May 11 to May 30, 1943, …

In May 1943, after a prolonged air campaign, U.S. troops piled into transport ships to expel invaders from American soil for the first time since 1812. Lasting 18 days, the Battle of Attu …

2024年8月7日 · During a five-day research trip last month, underwater archaeologists successfully located three World War II shipwrecks on the ocean floor near Attu—one …

In 1943, the US Army’s 7th Infantry Division captured Attu in the Western Aleutians, effectively removing the Japanese threat from America’s backyard.

2009年11月17日 · In June 1942, six months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that drew the U.S. into World War II, the Japanese targeted the Aleutians, an American-owned …

Battle of Attu: May 11-29, 1943. Codename: Operation Landcrab. On May 11, 1943, the U.S. North Pacific Force, commanded by Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN, landed and …

Today, evidence of the desperate battle is found on its eastern end: thousands of shell and bomb craters in the tundra, Japanese trenches, foxholes and gun encampments, American …

2024年3月20日 · World War II came to Alaska with the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor and the invasion of Attu and Kiska islands in 1942. Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy …

From May 11 through May 28, the Americans fought the Japanese, as well as the weather, to take back the island. After seventeen days of hard fighting Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki, the Japanese...