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On June 3, 1942 Japanese bombers attacked Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island. In bad weather, only half the planes found the target and little damage was done. The Japanese invasions of Kiska on June 6, 1942 and Attu on June 7 initially met little resistance. Much of the native population of the islands — the Aleuts — had been forcibly evacuated before the invasion and interned in camps in the Alaska Panhandle where many died of disease and starvation. The 42 inhabitants who remained ...

In August 1942, the United States established an air base on Adak Island and began bombing Japanese positions on Kiska. A naval force under Rear Admiral Charles McMorris was tasked with interdicting Japanese supply convoys. After the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, the Japanese abandoned their attempts to resupply their Aleutian garrisons by surface forces. From then on only submarines were used for resupply runs. The operation to recapture Attu began on May 11, 1943. A shortage of landing craft, unsuitable beaches, and equipment t ...

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