The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a military campaign led by U.S. and Canadian forces on the Islands of Attu and Kiska. It saw the only land battle fought on U.S. soil in World War two. .

marking the first time that American territory had been occupied since the War of 1812. To Americans from Delaware to Oregon, Japan's arrival in the Aleutian Islands confirmed their worries about ...

(Japan faced a critical shortage of experienced pilots for the rest of the war.) Japan invades Aleutian Islands. August: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands: After the first U.S. amphibious landing of ...

it is also one of America’s easternmost islands. After joining the National Park Service in 2000, Rachel Mason began researching the history of Attu and other Aleutian villages that were evacuated ...