The Deadly Legacy of World War II in Alaska

In the middle of the Bering Sea—closer to Japan than the continental United States and more than 1,000 miles from Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage—sit the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska. It was the summer of 1942, nearly six months after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, that Japanese forc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherford, Kenneth
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: JMU Scholarly Commons 2022
Subjects:
Journal
26.1
26.2
2022
Aleutian Islands explosive contamination
ERW clearance
mine action and World War II
Ken Rutherford
JMU
ERW
CISR
Other Public Affairs
Public Policy and Public Administration
Peace and Conflict Studies
Bering Sea
Anchorage
Kiska
Attu
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Online Access:https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol26/iss1/8
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/context/cisr-journal/article/2988/viewcontent/261_rutherford.pdf
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Summary:In the middle of the Bering Sea—closer to Japan than the continental United States and more than 1,000 miles from Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage—sit the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska. It was the summer of 1942, nearly six months after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, that Japanese forces invaded these islands in what was some of World War II’s most brutal fighting and use of explosives.

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