Military Photos

Decoy aircraft are laid out by occupying Japanese forces on a 
shoreline on Kiska Island on June 18, 1942. (U.S. Navy)




Oil tanks, the SS Northwestern, a beached transport ship, and 
warehouses on fire after Japanese air raids in Dutch Harbor, 
Alaska, on June 4, 1942. (U.S. Navy)



U.S. soldiers fight a fire after an air raid by Japanese dive bombers 
on their base in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in June 1942. (AP Photo)



Defending Dutch Harbor, Alaska during the Japanese air attacks of 
June 3-4, 1942. (U.S. Navy)



U.S. forces watch a massive fireball rise above Dutch Harbor, Alaska 
after a Japanese air strike in June of 1942. (U.S. Navy)



On June 3, 1942, a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force launched 
air attacks over two days against the Dutch Harbor Naval Base and 
Fort Mears in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In this photo, bombs explode 
in the water near Dutch Harbor, during the attack on June 4, 1942.(U.S. Navy)



Bleak, mountainous Attu Island in Alaska had 
a population of only about 46 people prior to
the Japanese invasion. On June 6, 1942,
a Japanese force of 1,100 soldiers landed,
occupying the island. One resident was killed
in the invasion, the remaining 45 were shipped
to a Japanese prison camp near Otaru, Hokkaido, 
where sixteen died while in captivity. This is a 
picture of Attu village situated on Chichagof Harbor.
 (O. J Murie/LOC)




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and-the-aleutian-campaign/100137/