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1942: Japan attacks Alaska; occupies some Aleutian Islands
The Japanese bomb Dutch Harbor Naval Air Station and Fort Mears in the eastern Aleutians and occupy Attu and Kiska Islands in the western Aleutians. The hospital at Unalaska is destroyed in an attack.
- Theme
- Land and Water
- Region
- Arctic
![A Japanese Tank Crew on Kiska [Island].](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/assets/timeline/000/000/013/13_w_full.jpg "A Japanese Tank Crew on Kiska [Island].")
A Japanese tank crew on Kiska during World War II, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Courtesy Alaska State Library, Aleutian/ Pribilof Project Photograph Collection
A village on Attu Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, ca. 1942
Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Remains of a 24-bed hospital destroyed by the Japanese during a bombing raid on Unalaska, 1942
Courtesy Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks