Japan’s invasion of Alaska and the only World War II land campaign on American soil

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...
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Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield

U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...