Japanese Type 88 75mm anti-aircraft gun and crew on Attu, US Territory of Alaska, May 1943
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An old German bunker which sheltered a gun 88 mm, is now used by Canadian like an anti-aircraft station. A gun of DCA is installed there.
OTD in 1943, men from the 7th Infantry Division landed on Attu in the Aleutian Islands to wrest it from control from Japanese forces, who had taken Attu and Kiska as part of the Battle of Midway. War correspondent Robert Sherrod reported on the battle.
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Death on a Cold Island: Robert L. Sherrod on Attu
Since arriving on the island of Attu , located in the Aleutians off the coast of the Alaskan Territory, on May 25, 1943, to cover the Americ...
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Original colour image showing a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron 61 (VP-61) on a sortie over the Aleutian Islands, March 1943. This aircraft crashed into Massacre Bay, Attu, on 17th January 1944. All the crew were killed.
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The US built something like 19 Independence-class aircraft carriers during the war and we had basically destroyed almost all of the Japanese ones by 1943