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A military campaign fought between 1942 and 1943 on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, the only World War II battle on North American soil. Learn about the Japanese invasion, the US-Canadian counterattack, the casualties, and the controversies over the strategic significance of the islands.
Operation Beleaguer [4] was the codename for the United States Marine Corps' occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949. The Marines were tasked with overseeing the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II.
The Army deployed about 130 airborne members to Shemya Island on the far end of the Aleutian chain in response to aggression from Russia and China this week.
Attu Station is a former Coast Guard LORAN station on Attu Island, the westernmost point of the U.S. state of Alaska. The station was built in 1942 and closed in 2010, after the island became uninhabited following the Battle of Attu in World War II.
The Coast Guard said its cutters spotted Chinese military ships in the Bering Sea in 2021 and 2022. China has yet to comment publicly on the U.S. Coast Guard's statement. Show comments
The United States–China talks in Alaska, also referred to as the Alaska talks [1] or the Anchorage meetings, [2] were a series of meetings between representatives of China and the United States to discuss a range of issues affecting their relations. The talks took place in three rounds during a two-day period between March 18 and 19 of 2021.
Learn about the first aerial attack by an enemy on the continental U.S. in June 1942, when the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed Dutch Harbor in Alaska. Find out the background, details, and aftermath of the battle that opened the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II.
Shemya is a small island in the Aleutian Islands chain southwest of Alaska, with a history of Russian exploration and a U.S. Air Force base since 1943. The base hosts a radar system for missile tracking and a refueling station for commercial flights, and has a polar climate with strong winds and fog.