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| | March 26 - Free Encyclopedia |
 | | 1943- World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. |
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| | Battle of the Komandorski Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was one of the most unusual engagements of World War II. | | | American forces had knowledge of a pending supply convoy to the Japanese garrisons on the Aleutian Islands. | | | It took place on 26 March 1943 in the North Pacific Area of the Pacific Ocean Areas, near the Komandorski Islands. |
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| | Submarine Hero-Howard Walter |
| | Later that month, she embarked on her first war patrol in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands, where Gilmore attacked three Japanese destroyers off Kiska, sinking one and severely damaging the other two, while narrowly avoiding two torpedoes fired at him in return. | | | Operating out of Pearl Harbor, Growler was one of seven submarines assigned picket duty north and west of the islands as part of the Hawaii defense force during the early phases of the Battle of Midway in June 1942. | | | In October 1942, Growler sailed from Pearl Harbor to Brisbane, Australia, by way of Truk in the Caroline Islands, both to support the blockade of that Japanese bastion and as part of a general repositioning of submarine assets ordered by ADM Chester Nimitz during the early struggle for the Solomon Islands. |
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| | Komandorski Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The 1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands took place in the open sea about 160 km (100 mi) south of the islands. | | | The Komandorski Islands or Commander Islands, (in Russian, Komandorskiye Ostrova) are a group of treeless islands east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. | | | Aleuts (Unangan) people came to the Komandorski Islands early in the 19th century from the Aleutian Islands. |
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| | Battle of Midway - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Battle of Midway |
| | In May 1942 the Japanese planned to expand their conquests by landing troops in the Aleutian islands and on Midway. | | | The Midway victory was one of the most important battles of the Pacific war – Japanese naval air superiority was destroyed in one day, putting an end to Japanese expansion and placing them on the defensive thereafter. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | sep_42.txt |
| | WEDNESDAY, 2 SEPTEMBER 1942 AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS ALASKA (11th Air Force): In the Aleutian Islands, 6 bombers and 12 P-38s fly cover and photo reconnaissance over Nazan and Kuluk Bays on Adak Island, and Amchitka and Semisopochnoi Islands. | | | FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 1942 AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS ALASKA (11th Air Force): A weather, photo, and patrol aircraft draws AA fire over Chichagof Harbor, Attu Island and also covers Tanaga, Amchitka, and Semichi Islands, Aleutian Islands. | | | SATURDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 1942 AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS ALASKA (11th Air Force): In the Aleutian Islands, a weather and patrol reconnaissance aircraft finds overcast at Kiska Island but takes photos over Tanaga, Kanaga, and Attu Islands. |
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| | United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Interrogations of Japanese Officials |
| | Aleutian Campaign, the Japanese Historical Account of the Naval Battle fought off the Komandorski Islands, March 1943 | | | Aleutian Campaign, Seaplane Operations, the Naval Battle of the Komandorski Islands, and the Defense of the Kuriles | | | Battle of the Philippines Sea; Battle for Leyte Gulf |
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| | United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Interrogations of Japanese Officials |
| | Aleutian Campaign, the Japanese Historical Account of the Naval Battle fought off the Komandorski Islands, March 1943 | | | Aleutian Campaign, Seaplane Operations, the Naval Battle of the Komandorski Islands, and the Defense of the Kuriles | | | Battle of the Philippines Sea; Battle for Leyte Gulf |
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| | United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Interrogations of Japanese Officials |
| | Aleutian Campaign, the Japanese Historical Account of the Naval Battle fought off the Komandorski Islands, March 1943 | | | Aleutian Campaign, Seaplane Operations, the Naval Battle of the Komandorski Islands, and the Defense of the Kuriles | | | Battle of the Philippines Sea; Battle for Leyte Gulf |
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| | Encyclopedia: Battle of Makin |
| | The Battle of the Aleutian Islands was a struggle over the Aleutian Islands, part of Alaska, in the Pacific campaign of World War II. | | | The Battle of Makin was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 November to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. | | | It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of Guadalcanal had been the first), and the first offensive in the critical central-Pacific region. |
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| | Battle of Vella Lavella |
| | - March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | The national flag of Solomon Islands is divided diagonally by a thin yellow stripe from the lower hoist-side corner representing the sun; the upper triangle (hoist side) is blue representing the blue sky with five white five-pointed stars in an X pattern; the lower triangle is green representing the greeny patch of lands. | | | Bougainville is geographically part of the Solomon Islands, but politically Papua New Guinea. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Pacific Islands |
| | Other, smaller island groups on the far northern and eastern edges of the Pacific (for example, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador) are usually classified with the nearby regions of the Western Hemisphere. | | | Allied forces fought bloody battles to regain the islands, including desperate struggles in the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Battle of Midway, and the Battle of Kokoda Trail. | | | The continental high islands were once part of the eastern edge of the Australian and Asian continents and are composed of substances similar to their former continents: ancient metamorphic rocks and sediments as well as rocks such as schist, gneiss, clay, and sandstone. |
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| | Learn more about 1943 in the online encyclopedia. |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | November 20 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns. | | | February 14 - World War II: The Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war |
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| | About Aleutians East Borough, Alaska |
| | The Aleutian Islands became a theatre of battle in World War II with an attack by the Japanese on Unalaska on June 3, 1942 and the Japanese occupation of Kiska and Attu islands. | | | The Aleutian Islands have been inhabited by the Unanga — who were called "Aleuts" by Russian traders — since the last ice age, and the village of Nikolski may be the oldest continuously inhabited community in the world, with an archaelogical record spanning 4,000 years.. | | | The Aleutians West Census Area lies in the westernmost part of Alaska, comprising the western portion of the Aleutian Islands along with the Pribilof Islands to the north in the Bering Sea. |
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| | East Carolina University |
| | Of special interest are comments on the rescue of personnel under fire from Howland and Baker Islands, the Battle of Savo Island, the recapture of the Marianas, the bombardment of Iwo Jima, and Helm's collision with USS Conner. | | | An Episcopalian, she was appointed treasurer of the Missionary District (Diocese) of the Philippine Islands on February 10, 1931, and was working in Manila in 1942 when she was interned as an "enemy alien" by the invading Japanese army. | | | Specific accounts include engagements in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns; kamikaze attacks; action in the Aleutian Islands; the bombardment of the islands of Guam and Rota; and the end of World War II in the Pacific Ocean. |
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| | 1943 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | November 20 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns. | | | February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. |
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| | About Aleutians East Borough, Alaska |
| | The Aleutian Islands became a theatre of battle in World War II with an attack by the Japanese on Unalaska on June 3, 1942 and the Japanese occupation of Kiska and Attu islands. | | | The Aleutian Islands have been inhabited by the Unanga — who were called "Aleuts" by Russian traders — since the last ice age, and the village of Nikolski may be the oldest continuously inhabited community in the world, with an archaelogical record spanning 4,000 years.. | | | The Aleutians West Census Area lies in the westernmost part of Alaska, comprising the western portion of the Aleutian Islands along with the Pribilof Islands to the north in the Bering Sea. |
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| | WW2DB: Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands |
| | WW2DB: Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | | | » Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | | | With the inclusion of the Aleutians, the battle zone was expanded into a huge 1,500nm by 1,650nm area. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of the Aleutian Islands |
| | As of 2005, the Battle of the Aleutian Islands was the last military engagement between sovereign nations to be fought on American soil. | | | The islands had no strategic value for either side: the invasion was launched by the Japanese as an unsuccessful diversion from the battle of Midway. | | | America feared that the islands would be used as bases from which to launch aerial assaults against the West Coast, and it became a matter of national pride to expel the first invaders to set foot on American soil since the War of 1812. |
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| | Japanese aircraft carrier Junyo - encyclopedia article about Japanese aircraft carrier Junyo. |
| | In June 1943, Junyo helped protect a important convoy sent to reinforce the Japanese garrison on Kiska Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at 52.1° N, 177.6° E. It is about 22 miles long and varies in width from 1.5 to 6 miles. | | | In late October 1942, during the Guadalcanal Campaign, Junyo took part in the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was a naval battle of World War II, one of several episodes in the Solomon Islands campaign. | | | On 9 December 1944, Junyo was carrying 200 survivors of Musashi and was accompanied by the battleship Haruna and the destroyers Suzutsuki, Fuyutsuki, and Maki. |
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| | Battle of the Aleutian Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As of 2005, the Battle of the Aleutian Islands was the last military engagement between sovereign nations to be fought on American soil. | | | The islands had no strategic value for either side: the invasion was launched by the Japanese as an unsuccessful diversion from the battle of Midway. | | | America feared that the islands would be used as bases from which to launch aerial assaults against the West Coast, and it became a matter of national pride to expel the first invaders to set foot on American soil since the War of 1812. |
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| | Battle of Makin - definition of Battle of Makin in Encyclopedia |
| | The end of the Aleutian Islands campaign and progress in the Solomon Islands, combined with increasing supplies of men and materials, gave the United States Navy the resources to carry out an invasion of the central Pacific in late 1943. | | | The Battle of Makin was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 November to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. | | | The plan was to approach the Japanese home islands by "leap-frogging": establishing naval and air bases in one group of islands to support the attack on the next. |
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| | 1943 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. | | | February 2 - World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. |
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| | Cruisers Descriptions, Pacific War, 1942 |
| | For the remainder of the war, she patrolled the waters of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and made periodic sweeps of the Kuril Islands. | | | After repairs, she escorted a convoy to Australia, screened the first American landings in the Aleutians, escorted to Noumea, and intercepted an enemy convoy to Guadalcanal in The Battle of Tassafaronga. | | | She fought in the Battle of Coral Sea, Midway, Battle of Eastern Solomons, Battle of Tassafaronga, where her bow, 1/5 of her length, was ripped off by a torpedo. |
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| | 1943 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. | | | February 2 - World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. |
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| | ipedia.com: 1943 Article |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war. | | | July 5 - World War II: Battle of Kursk- The largest tank battle in history begins. |
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| | 07 Aug History: This Date |
| | Japanese successes in the Pacific rivaled those won by Germany in Europe, and by August 1942 Japan controlled an empire that stretched from Burma in the west to the Gilbert Islands in the east, and from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the north to the Solomon Islands in the south. | | | The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major Japanese land defeat in World War II and cost the Allies 1600 dead, 4250 wounded, and many others incapacitated by malaria and other diseases. | | | The bloody Battle of Guadalcanal stretched on for six months. |
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| | Battle of the Aleutian Islands detailed account - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a detailed account of the Battle of the Aleutian Islands of World War II, from 3 June 1942 through 24 August 1943. | | | The Aleutian attack was a sideshow, yet it would reduce Yamamoto's overall available strength in carrier aircraft during the fight for Midway on 4-5 June, one of the decisive battles of all time and the turning point of the Pacific war. | | | Map of the capture of Attu in the Aleutian Islands, 1943. |
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| | 1943 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. | | | February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. | | | February 2 - World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. |
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