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Aleutian headache : deadly World War II battles on American soil (documentary)
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Book
Title:
Aleutian headache : deadly World War II battles on American soil (documentary)
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ISBN:
9780936738697
Publication Information:
Medford, Or., U.S.A. : Webb Research Group, ©1993.
Physical Description:
vi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents:
Getting ready -- "About to be bombed by enemy planes"-the Dutch Harbor raids -- Surprise from Umnak -- Gift of a zero -- Chasing the Japanese -- Where do we go from here? -- Japanese on Kiska and Attu -- "Kiska Blitz" -- Japanese countermeasures -- Submarine activity-Western Aleutians -- Eareckson: the one-man Air Force -- First American Naval Sorties at Kiska -- Adak and Amchitka -- Kinkaid's Attu Caper -- Battle of Komondorski Islands -- Attu liberated -- Scenes of Shemya -- "Get Kiska back" -- Kiska invaded-nobody home -- Mail for troops in Alaska; the A.P.O. -- OS2U-Kingfisher patrols -- How the Japanese did it: Their Aleutians campaign -- Occupation of Attu and Kiska -- Method of running ships into Kiska and Attu -- Battle of Komondorski Islands -- Kiska evacuated -- Kiska Memorial Association.
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