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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...
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    The Aleutian Islands (/əˈluːʃən/ ə-LOO-shən; Russian: Алеутские острова, romanized: Aleutskiye ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts";...
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  • Adak Island (Aleut: Adaax, Russian: Адак) or Father Island is an island near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in...
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    Kiska (redirect from Kiska aleutian island)
    Kiska (Aleut: Qisxa, Russian: Кыска) is one of the Rat Islands, a group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is about 22 miles (35 km) long and varies...
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    is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain). It is one of the westernmost points of the U.S. state of Alaska. The island became...
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    The Near Islands or Sasignan Islands (Aleut: Sasignan tanangin, Russian: Ближние острова) are a group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern...
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    Battle of Attu (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    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...
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    The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on April 1, 1946. The shock measured (Mw) 8.6, Mt 9.3 or (Ms) 7.4. It had...
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    fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence en route to a final target. The reasoning was that those islands could simply...
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    Operation Cottage (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign. On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japanese...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following...
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    the Aleutian Islands campaign of the American Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japanese occupied Kiska and nearby Attu Island in order...
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    troops were only once sent into combat during the Aleutian campaign during the invasion of the island of Kiska. However, the Japanese had already withdrawn...
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    Battle of Dutch Harbor (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    and U.S. Army Fort Mears at Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island, opening the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II. The bombing marked the first aerial...
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    The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II...
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    Islands campaign Air Offensive Japan: 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945 Aleutian Islands: 3 June 1942 – 24 August 1943, the Aleutian Islands campaign Northern...
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    of the River Plate, submarine attacks off the East Coast, the Aleutian Islands campaign, the Battle of the St. Lawrence, and the attacks on Newfoundland...
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    in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, providing gunfire support to troops fighting to retake the islands. The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign followed...
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    The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and capture of several...
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    Granite II (Mariana and Palau Islands campaign) 1500km 900miles Palaus Marianas Philippine    Sea Philippines Luzon Leyte Formosa Anguar Peleliu Guam Tinian...
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    USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (category Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign)
    island hopping strategy in the Aleutian Islands. On the evening of 19 February, Indianapolis led two destroyers on a patrol southwest of Attu Island,...
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    Naval Air Facility Adak (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    States during World War II through the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu as part of the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Despite the first loss of U.S. soil...
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    forces landed in the western Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu, as a northern pincer of the main attack on Midway Island. After the stunning Japanese...
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    USS S-18 (category Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign)
    She served during World War II, seeing duty primarily in the Aleutian Islands campaign. S-18′s keel was laid down on 15 August 1918 by the Bethlehem...
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    Japanese occupation of Attu (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    occupation of Attu (Operation AL) was the result of an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. Imperial Japanese Army troops landed...
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    USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) (category Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign)
    replenishing. Late in March 1943, she departed for the Aleutian Islands and operated from Adak Island to prevent the Japanese from supporting their garrisons...
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  • Aleutian Islands Campaign in World War II, thousands of U.S. servicemen were stationed in the islands. The film begins by describing how the Aleutian...
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    Castner's Cutthroats (category Aleutian Islands campaign)
    the Aleutian Islands Campaign. The unit was composed of just sixty-five men selected to perform reconnaissance missions in the Aleutian Islands during...
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    USS Dale (DD-353) (category Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign)
    Francisco. On 9 January 1943 Dale sailed from San Francisco for duty in Aleutian waters. She supported the occupation of Amchitka between 23 January and...
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    Japanese submarine I-19 (category Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign)
    stages of the Aleutian Islands campaign. On 15 September 1942, while patrolling south of the Solomon Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign under the command...
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