forces during Japan’s attack on Midway Island (June 4-7, 1942) in the central Pacific. The maneuver was possibly designed to divert U.S. soil Japan claimed during the war in the Pacific. In June 1942, Japan had seized the remote, sparsely inhabited islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. troops fought to remove Japanese garrisons established on a pair of U.S.-owned islands west of Alaska. In the Battle of the Aleutian Islands (June 1942-August 1943) during World War II (1939-45), U.S.
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