The Japanese occupation of Kiska took place between 6 June 1942 and 28 July 1943 during the Aleutian Islands campaign of the American Theater and the Pacific ...

Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign. On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, ...

The “Kiska Blitz” began on 11 June 1942, when the U.S. Army Air Forces long range B-24 and B-17 bombers flew missions from Umnak along with the U.S. Navy PBYs ...

On June 11th, 1942, a combined force of US Army and Navy aircraft unleashed a near continuous three-day bombing campaign, known as the “Kiska Blitz”.

On August 15, the Allied troops landed, expecting a large force of Japanese to meet them. During the eight-day search, 28 Allied servicemen were killed by ...

The “Battle” of Kiska. On the 13th of August, the combined American-Canadian assault force sailed from Adak for Kiska with 34,426 soldiers, 5,300 of which were ...

The campaign to oust the Japanese from the Aleutian island of Kiska, Operation COTTAGE, got underway. It was to be the first combat for this unique Canadian- ...

The Battle of Kiska raged for two nerve-wracking days as the Allied soldiers slowly and awkwardly gained ground in the difficult mountainous terrain. Radio ...

Kiska Island remains one of the best preserved historic battlefields from WWII with no settlement prior to or after the war.

17 нояб. 2009 г. · In the Battle of the Aleutian Islands (June 1942-August 1943) during World War II (1939-45), U.S. troops fought to remove Japanese garrisons ...