Abstract
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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Rutherford, Kenneth
(2022)
"The Deadly Legacy of World War II in Alaska,"
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction: Vol. 26
:
Iss.
1
, Article 8.
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https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol26/iss1/8
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