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67 relations: Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Aleutian Islands Campaign, American Theater (World War II), Archibald Vincent Arnold, Arctic, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Attu Island, Banzai charge, Battleship, Billy Mitchell, Castner's Cutthroats, Chichagof Harbor, Destroyer, Empire of Japan, Eugene M. Landrum, Frostbite, Ground warfare, Hand-to-hand combat, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Imperial Japanese Army, Independent Lens, Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō, Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō, Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku, Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, Japanese battleship Haruna, Japanese battleship Kongō, Japanese battleship Musashi, Japanese cruiser Agano, Japanese cruiser Ōyodo, Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1938), Japanese cruiser Kumano, Japanese cruiser Mogami (1934), Japanese cruiser Suzuya (1934), Japanese cruiser Tone (1937), Joe P. Martínez, John L. DeWitt, John Toland (author), Kiska, Landing craft, List of United States Air Force bomb squadrons, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Medal of Honor, North American B-25 Mitchell, Northern District Army (Japan), Operation Vengeance, Pacific War, Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi, ..., PBS, Reconnaissance, Royal Canadian Air Force, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Territories of the United States, Territory of Alaska, The Rising Sun, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Type 88 75 mm AA gun, United States, United States Army Center of Military History, Victory Through Air Power (film), Walt Disney, West Coast of the United States, World War II, Yasuyo Yamasaki, 7th Infantry Division (United States). Expand index (17 more) »
Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (Tanam Unangaa, literally "Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the U.S. state of Alaska and the Russian federal subject of Kamchatka Krai.
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Aleutian Islands Campaign
The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a military campaign conducted by the United States and Japan in the Aleutian Islands, part of the Alaska Territory, in the American theater and the Pacific theater of World War II starting on 3 June 1942.
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American Theater (World War II)
The American Theater describes a series of mostly minor areas of operations during World War II.
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Archibald Vincent Arnold
Archibald Vincent Arnold (February 24, 1889 – January 4, 1973) was a major general of the United States Army during World War II.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Attu Island
Attu (Atan) is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, North America, and the Americas.
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Banzai charge
A banzai charge is the term used by the Allied forces to refer to Japanese human wave attacks mounted by infantry units.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.
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Billy Mitchell
William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force.
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Castner's Cutthroats
Castner's Cutthroats was the unofficial name for the 1st Alaskan Combat Intelligence Platoon (Provisional), also known as Alaskan Scouts.
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Chichagof Harbor
Chichagof Harbor is an inlet on the northeast coast of the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
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Empire of Japan
The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.
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Eugene M. Landrum
Major General Eugene M. Landrum (February 6, 1891 – July 24, 1967) was a senior United States Army officer.
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Frostbite
Frostbite occurs when exposure to low temperatures causes freezing of the skin or other tissues.
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Ground warfare
Ground warfare or land warfare is the process of military operations eventuating in combat that take place predominantly on the battlespace land surface of the planet.
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Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a lethal or non-lethal physical confrontation between two or more persons at very short range (grappling distance, or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons.
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962.
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Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.
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Independent Lens
Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS presenting documentary films made by independent filmmakers.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
was a Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Navy and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until his death.
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Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō
was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
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Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō
was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
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Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku
Shōkaku (翔鶴, "Soaring Crane") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class.
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Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
Zuikaku (Japanese: 瑞鶴 "Auspicious Crane") was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her complement of aircraft took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor that formally brought the United States into the Pacific War, and she fought in several of the most important naval battles of the war, before being sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. www.history.navy.mil One of six carriers to participate in the Pearl Harbor attack, Zuikaku was the last of the six to be sunk in the war (four in the Battle of Midway and Shōkaku in the Battle of the Philippine Sea).
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Japanese battleship Haruna
was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during:World War I and:World War II.
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Japanese battleship Kongō
Kongō (金剛, "Indestructible Diamond", named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II.
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Japanese battleship Musashi
, named after the former Japanese province, was one of two s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s.
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Japanese cruiser Agano
was the lead ship of the s which served with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.
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Japanese cruiser Ōyodo
was a light cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), completed during World War II, and was the only ship of her class completed before the end of the war.
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Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1938)
was the second and last vessel in the of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Japanese cruiser Kumano
was one of four of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving in World War II.
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Japanese cruiser Mogami (1934)
was the lead ship in the four-vessel of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Japanese cruiser Suzuya (1934)
was the third of four vessels in the of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)
was the lead ship in the two-vessel of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Joe P. Martínez
Private Joseph Pantillion Martínez (July 27, 1920–May 26, 1943) born in Taos, New Mexico, was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration —- for his actions on the Aleutian Islands during World War II.
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John L. DeWitt
John Lesesne DeWitt (January 9, 1880 – June 20, 1962) was a general in the United States Army, best known for his vocal support of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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John Toland (author)
John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 – January 4, 2004) was an American writer and historian.
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Kiska
Kiska (Qisxa) is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
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Landing craft
Landing craft are small and medium seagoing vessels such as boats, and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.
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List of United States Air Force bomb squadrons
This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons.
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft.
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Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who distinguished themselves by acts of valor.
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North American B-25 Mitchell
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American twin-engine, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA).
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Northern District Army (Japan)
The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army, responsible for defense of the northern region of the Japanese home islands, including Hokkaidō, Karafuto and the Chishima Islands.
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Operation Vengeance
Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China (including the 1945 Soviet–Japanese conflict). The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7/8 December 1941, when Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military and naval bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, the latter briefly aided by Thailand and to a much lesser extent by the Axis allied Germany and Italy. The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bomb attacks by the Allies, accompanied by the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. The formal surrender of Japan ceremony took place aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Japan's Shinto Emperor was forced to relinquish much of his authority and his divine status through the Shinto Directive in order to pave the way for extensive cultural and political reforms. After the war, Japan lost all rights and titles to its former possessions in Asia and the Pacific, and its sovereignty was limited to the four main home islands.
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Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi
, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Nebu Tatsuguchi (August 31, 1911 – May 30, 1943), was a surgeon in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Reconnaissance
In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and other activities in the area.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.
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Territories of the United States
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions directly overseen by the United States (U.S.) federal government.
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Territory of Alaska
The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 24, 1912, until January 3, 1959, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alaska.
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The Rising Sun
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945, written by John Toland, was published by Random House in 1970 and won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Thomas C. Kinkaid
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid (3 April 1888 – 17 November 1972) served as an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II.
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Type 88 75 mm AA gun
horizontal The was an anti-aircraft gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Army Center of Military History
The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.
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Victory Through Air Power (film)
Victory Through Air Power is a 1943 American Technicolor animated documentary feature film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists on July 17, 1943.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yasuyo Yamasaki
Colonel was a professional Army officer who commanded the Japanese forces on Attu during the Battle of the Aleutian Islands. Yamasaki was a native of what is now part of Tsuru, Yamanashi, where his father was a Buddhist priest. He graduated from the 25th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1913, and served in the Siberian Intervention from April 1918 to December 1920. In May 1928, he was part of the Japanese expeditionary force to mainland China during the Jinan Incident. Yamasaki was promoted to colonel in March 1940. Later that year he assumed command of the 130th Infantry Regiment. In February 1943 Yamasaki became commanding officer of the 2nd District Force of the North Sea Defense Force, the capacity in which he went to the Aleutians. He arrived on Attu in April 1943 by submarine. His orders were to hold the island without outside help. The 2,650 defenders under Yamasaki did not contest the American landings on Attu but rather dug in on high ground away from the shore. The battle produced some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific Theatre, similar to the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. On May 29, the last of the Japanese forces suddenly attacked near Massacre Bay in one of the largest banzai charges of the Pacific campaign. The charge was led by Yamasaki himself, who was killed later that day, sword in hand, assaulting Engineer Hill. His attack penetrated American lines far enough to encounter shocked rear-echelon units of the American force. After furious, brutal, close-quarter, and often hand-to-hand combat, the entire Japanese force was killed almost to the last man: only 29 prisoners were taken, none of them an officer. American burial teams counted 2,351 Japanese dead, but it was presumed that hundreds more had been buried by bombardments over the course of the battle.
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7th Infantry Division (United States)
The 7th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Attu
