The Aleutians: The Battle For Kiska

Sometimes called 'Forgotten Front 1' or 'Forgotten War 2', the battle of the Aleutian Islands in Southwest Alaska was the most bloodshed in World War II. On August 14, 1943, the battle of Artu was still fresh, so the US military dispatched more than 100 boats and 30,000 soldiers to land on Kisco Island. What they found on the island shocked the Allies. History In December 1941, the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor and pushed the United States into World War II.

The battle of the Aleutian Islands was the last battle of the sovereign state against the American country. As part of the Midway fighting movement plan, the Japanese dominated two of the Aleutian Islands (Atu and Kiska). Their hope is that the powerful US Navy withdraws from the center and prevails over Japan. Because their passwords were broken, the US military only banished the Japanese army after the Midway. On May 11, 1943, the US and Canadian army led the seventh infantry troops and landed in Artu, the island began harvesting at the end of May 1943, after a series of battles allies reclaimed Artu. On 15 August 1943, the Allies landed in Kisco for recapture and found only the island abandoned by the Japanese army.

Six months after the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan bombed the US naval base naval base and US Army Millsburg and occupied Atu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands near Unalaska. In the decades after the end of the war, the general understanding of Japan's Aleutian strategy was that it was only a relocation measure during the operation. However, according to a recent survey, it is concluded that Japan has a longer-term strategy to establish and expand the eastern defense border. Correspondingly, the US military strategists knew that they could not run the risk of making the Aleutian Islands a steppingstone for Japan's attack on the Americas. In addition, occupation is a big propaganda victory for the Japanese - this insult can not be solved

In the Pacific, the US Army regained Artu on Aleutian Islands during the fierce three weeks fight that began on May 23. (Japan evacuated Kiska before Americans and Canadians landed in August.) The main action is Southwest. The Pacific US Army and the New Zealand Army crossed the Solomon Islands under the direction of Admiral William Harcusy, boarded New Georgia in August and got into Bougainville in November. A big beachhead. Australians and Americans under MacArthur returned with the Japanese to the east coast of New Guinea and brought Lae and Saramaa in September. MacArthur and Halsey 's mission set by JCS in 1942 was to take Rabaul, but they control the surrounding air and the ocean in the Solomon Islands by offsetting the garrison of the Japanese island and wasting it I found it enough. In February 1944 landed on New England Gloucester, landed on the Admiralty Island in February 1944, landed in the United Arab Emirates in March 1944, effectively stopping Labor.