Battle For The Aleutians

Author : Brian Lane Herder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472832559

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The Aleutians 1942–43 by Brian Lane Herder Pdf

It is often forgotten that during World War II, the Japanese managed to successfully invade and conquer a precious part of American home soil – the first time this had happened since 1815. Capturing the Aleutian Islands, located in Alaska territory, was seen by the Japanese as vital in order to shore up their northern defensive perimeter. Fighting in the Aleutians was uniquely brutal. It is a barren, rugged archipelago of icy mountains and thick bogs, with a climate of constant snow, freezing rains and windstorms. These geographic conditions tended to neutralize traditional American strengths such as air power, radar, naval bombardment and logistics. The campaign to recapture the islands required extensive combined-ops planning, and inflicted on the United States its second highest casualty rate in the Pacific theatre. Featuring the largest Japanese banzai charge of the war, first use of pre-battle battleship bombardment in the Pacific and the battle at the Komandorski Islands, this is the full story of the forgotten battle to liberate American soil from the Japanese.

Author : Mark Obmascik
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451678383

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The Storm on Our Shores by Mark Obmascik Pdf

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered diary—found during a brutal World War II battle—changed our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan. May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces tirelessly fought in a yearlong campaign, with both sides suffering thousands of casualties. Included in this number was a Japanese medic whose war diary would lead a Silver Star–winning American soldier to find solace for his own tortured soul. The doctor’s name was Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi, a Hiroshima native who had graduated from college and medical school in California. He loved America, but was called to enlist in the Imperial Army of his native Japan. Heartsick, wary of war, yet devoted to Japan, Tatsuguchi performed his duties and kept a diary of events as they unfolded—never knowing that it would be found by an American soldier named Dick Laird. Laird, a hardy, resilient underground coal miner, enlisted in the US Army to escape the crushing poverty of his native Appalachia. In a devastating mountainside attack in Alaska, Laird was forced to make a fateful decision, one that saved him and his comrades, but haunted him for years. Tatsuguchi’s diary was later translated and distributed among US soldiers. It showed the common humanity on both sides of the battle. But it also ignited fierce controversy that is still debated today. After forty years, Laird was determined to return it to the family and find peace with Tatsuguchi’s daughter, Laura Tatsuguchi Davis. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mark Obmascik “writes with tremendous grace about a forgotten part of our history, telling the same story from two opposing points of view—perhaps the only way warfare can truly be understood” (Helen Thorpe, author of Soldier Girls).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943
ISBN : MINN:31951D02464825F

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The Battle of Attu by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Haile Cloe,United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943
ISBN : 0996583734

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Attu by John Haile Cloe,United States. National Park Service Pdf

The Battle of Attu, which took place from 11-30 May 1943, was a battle fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and the Empire of Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater and was the only land battle of World War II fought on incorporated territory of the United States. It is also the only land battle in which Japanese and American forces fought in Arctic conditions. The more than two-week battle ended when most of the Japanese defenders were killed in brutal hand-to-hand combat after a final banzai charge broke through American lines. Related products: Aleutian Islands: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/aleutian-islands-us-army-campaigns-world-war-ii-pamphlet Aleutians, Historical Map can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/aleutians-historical-map-poster Other products produced by the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/national-park-service-nps World War II resources collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/world-war-ii

Author : Donald Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557282422

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The Williwaw War by Donald Goldstein,Katherine V. Dillon Pdf

"An amazing story of Arkansas soldiers and their struggle in the Aleutians. A must read book for those who want to learn about a forgotten part of that great war told from a soldier's point of view." -Major General James A. Ryan The Adjutant General Military Department of Arkansas

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:30000134325418

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Battle for the Aleutians by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pdf

Author : Carol Burkhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
ISBN : MINN:31951D01035052L

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World War II National Historic Landmarks by Carol Burkhart Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:30000003310210

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The Aleutians Campaign, June 1942-August 1943 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Attu Island (Alaska), Battle of, 1943
ISBN : UOM:39015013535003

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The Capture of Attu by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Dashiell Hammett,Robert Garland Colodny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Aleutian Islands
ISBN : UCSD:31822043009984

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The Battle of the Aleutians by Dashiell Hammett,Robert Garland Colodny Pdf

Written for the soldiers who were serving in the Aleutians at the time of this publication's production. It exlains what the action was like in the Aleutians between June 1942 when the Japanese attacked U.S. airfields in Dutch Harbor, among the easternmost islands, and August 1943 when allied forces occupied Attu, one of the westernmost of the Aleutian chain. It has been estimated that one hundred thousand copies were printed in 1944 for free distribution to troops stationed on the chain. (per information contained on pages 193-194 in Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / by Richard Layman. New York, 1983. In fact the last line reads: "The story of the Aleutians in this war is not yet finished".

Author : Nick Golodoff
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602232495

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Attu Boy by Nick Golodoff Pdf

In June 1942 the Japanese army invaded Attu, a remote island at the end of the Aleutian Chain. Soldiers occupied the village for two months before taking its Alaska Native residents to Japan, where they were held until the end of the war. After harassing American and Canadian forces for little over a year, the Japanese forces quietly withdrew. After the war, the Attuans' return to Alaska was not a joyful reunion. When they were released, the Attuans were not allowed to return to their home, but were settled instead in Atka, several hundred miles from Attu. Attu Boy is Nick Golodoff's memoir of his experience as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II as a young boy. Nick was six years old when Japanese soldiers invaded his remote Aleutian village. Along with the other Unangan Attu residents, Nick and his family were taken to Hokkaido, Japan. Only 25 of the Attuans survived the war; the others died of hunger, malnutrition, and disease. Nick tells his story from the unique viewpoint of a child who experienced friendly relationships with some of the Japanese captors along with harsh treatment from others. Other voices join Nick's to give the book a broad sense of the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of lives disrupted by war.

Author : Brian Payton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062279996

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The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton Pdf

The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.

Author : Robert J. Mitchell,Sewell T. Tyng,Nelson L. Drummond
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359139286

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The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There by Robert J. Mitchell,Sewell T. Tyng,Nelson L. Drummond Pdf

In May 1943 US forces clashed with Japanese invaders in an epic battle on the Alaskan island of Attu. Fighting through the fog and icy rain, avoiding pot-shots from snipers in mountain crevices, lugging heavy machine guns up slippery inclines, and ultimately scaling a 250-foot cliff, the 17th Infantry willed its way to a crucial victory in what the author calls, 'The Queen of Battles.' *Includes footnotes and photographs from the Aleutian Islands Campaign.

Author : Mary Breu
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780882408521

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Last Letters from Attu by Mary Breu Pdf

Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.

Author : Jim Rearden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1575101203

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Forgotten Warriors of the Aleutian Campaign by Jim Rearden Pdf