Battle of Aleutian Islands: Japanese troops gradually fell.

Battle of Aleutian Islands: Japanese troops gradually fell.

The Battle of Aleutian Islands was a battle fought by the Japanese fleet to capture Midway Island and the western islands of Aleutian Islands during the Pacific War of World War II from June 3, 65438 to August 5, 65438. The purpose of Japan is to send landing troops to land suddenly on Midway Island, Kiska Island, attu and other places, seize the islands, and annihilate the US Pacific Fleet in the decisive battle, so as to seize the sea power in the Pacific Ocean and achieve the strategic goal of fighting in the north-central Pacific Ocean. The main assault target of the campaign is midway island.

Before the Japanese invasion, there were only 46 residents in Atu, Alaska, which was desolate and mountainous. 1June 6, 942, a Japanese army consisting of 1 100 soldiers landed and occupied the island. 1 residents were killed in the invasion, and the remaining 45 people were transported to a prison camp near Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. 16 people died in custody. This is a photo of a village near Chichagov Bay in Artu.

1On June 3rd, 942, the Japanese attacked the Dutch port on the island of Unalaska with Kate bombers on the aircraft carriers Falcon and Dragon Boat. In bad weather, only half of the planes found the target and caused only minor losses. On June 6th and 7th, 1942, respectively, the Japanese invaded Kiska Island and Artu, but only met with slight resistance from the local Aleutians. Before the invasion, many residents of the local islands had been forcibly evacuated and moved into refugee camps in the Alaska Panhandle.

In May 1943, 1 1, the action of recovering Artu began. On May 29th, the last batch of 1 Japanese troops carried out the largest suicide attack in the Pacific War and launched a surprise attack on massac Bay. After fierce, cruel and frequent hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army almost killed the last man. In the battle of Aleutian Islands, the Japanese army is understandable from the operational point of view. But the significance of military action is not to look at the length of occupation. What is the necessity of guiscard and Artu's career? What did the United States lose and what did the Japanese gain?

On the contrary, it exposed Japan's fatal weakness of lacking strategic vision and became the first step towards extinction! ?