Aleutian Headache: Deadly World War II Battles on American Soil

by Bert Webber

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936738693
• ISBN13: 9780936738697
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Webb Research Group
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

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Deadly World War II Battles in Alaska

In the 1920's General Billy Mitchell declared the Aleutian Islands were the jumping off place for an Americanm attack on Japan. At the same time, the Japanese were sending spies into the Aleutians to "check it out" for their own agenda. The book ALEUTIAN HEADACHE provides fascinating narrative and pictures about the American buildup in Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the face of aggressive Japanese expansion throughout the Pacific. Details here of the Japanese seizure of American soil in Alaska and the deadly allied attacks that expelled them. Includes the American air raid that bombed the Japanese on Kiska Island with beer and Coke bottles, when the bottles hit the earth they smashed showering the Japanese occupants with shards of glass. Book also includes little known accounts of the U.S. Navy - Japanese Navy ship-to-ship fighting (without aircraft) in Bering Sea. Major chapter on Dutch Harbor bombed. Attu, Aggatu and Kiska seized by the Japanese. The Kiska Blitz--"Get Kiska Back"! American liberation of Attu a ghastly affair Japanese secretly escape from Kiska thus Americna invasion forces shooting at their own (American) buddies. Special chapter: How the Japanese did it? Dozens of rare photographs, maps and charts prepared especially for this book, appendices, bibliography for those who want to know more, Index. Recommended for those who want to know about the "shooting" war of 1942-1943 on Ameriocan soil Includes illustrated chapter on how the American soldiers in those frozen Aleutian Islands sent and received their mail by the Army Post Office (APO) system. Role of Japanese-Americans during the Battle of Attu.