Aleutian Islands campaign

General

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  Aleutians theater
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  USS Triton (SS-201) at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 16 July 1942
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  US Army lands on Adak in August, 1942.
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  Casco beached on Adak during August 30, 1942 landings.
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  US military base on Adak 18 months after August, 1942 landings.
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  Unopposed US military landing at Constantine Harbor, Amchitka, Aleutians, 12 January 1943.
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  PBY at Aleutians airfield during rough, winter weather.
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  Boxing match outside of mess hall, Allied forces base, Adak Island, July 4, 1944.

Dutch Harbor attacks

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  Anchorage Daily Times June 3, 1942
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  U.S. Marines on alert at Dutch Harbor after the Japanese air attacks on June 3, 1942.
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  Buildings burning after the first enemy attack on Dutch Harbor, 3 June 1942

Komandorski Islands

Commanders

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  Thomas Kinkaid
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  Charles McMorris (third from left)

US Ships

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  USS Salt Lake City
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  USS Richmond
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  USS Bailey
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  USS Dale
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  USS Monoghan
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  USS Louisville

Japanese Ships

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  HIJMS Nachi
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  HIJMS Maya
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  HIJMS Abukuma
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  HIJMS Hatsushimo
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  HIJMS Ikazuchi

Maps

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  Battle area
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  Overall track chart
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  Ships at 0730
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  Ships at 0840
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  Ships at 11:55
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  U.S. destroyer's torpedo attack at 11:58

Action and aftermath

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  Salt Lake City in action during the battle.
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  Salt Lake City at Dutch Harbor three days after the battle.

Attu

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  Map of Attu.
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  Japanese troops on Attu in the winter of 1943.
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  Japanese officers on Attu sometime in 1943.
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  Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.
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  Japanese artillery crew trains on Attu, sometime in 1943.
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  A Japanese tank crew poses with their tank on Attu (allegedly, see photo for note) sometime in 1943.
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  Japanese barrack interior on Attu.
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  USS Louisville (CA-28) steams out of Kulak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, bound for operations against Attu, 25 April 1943.
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  Japanese Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki
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  Map of US landings on Attu, May 12, 1943.
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  Map of the capture of Attu in the Aleutian Islands, 1943.
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  US landing craft approach the beach at Massacre Bay on 13 May 1943.
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  Attu Invasion - Soldiers unload landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 13 May 1943. LCVPs in the foreground are from USS Zeilin (APA-3) and USS Heywood (APA-6).
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  Soldiers unloading LCPR and LCM type landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 12 May 1943. Boats are from USS Heywood (APA-6).
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  United States troops hauling supplies on Attu in May 1943
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  US troops on Attu during the battle
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  Attu, Aleutian Island, June 4, 1943. US soldiers hurling their trench mortar shells over a ridge into a Japanese position.
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  USS William D. Porter (DD-579) in Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, with other destroyers, 9 June 1944.
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  Japanese soldiers killed during the final "banzai" charge on May 29, 1943.
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  Dead Japanese are prepared for mass burial after the battle.
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  Sign on Attu reads: "Colonel Yamasaki: Yamasaki, a Colonel in the Japanese Army, was killed in action near this point. Colonel Yamasaki commanded all Japanese Troops on the Island."
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  Japanese fire balloons shot down near Attu in the Aleutians shown on gun cameras. P-38 in lower right frame.

Kiska

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  Map of Kiska
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  Japanese troops raise the Imperial battle flag on Kiska Island in the Aleutians on June 6, 1942.
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  Japanese transport burns after US air attack on June 18, 1942.
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  US warships bombard Kiska in July, 1943.
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  1943 aerial reconnaissance photo
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  USS St. Louis bombards Kiska in August, 1942.
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  Kiska Operation - US troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943.
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  Kiska invasion force assembles at Adak.
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  USS Nashville (CL-43) bombarding Kiska Island, Aleutians, on 8 August 1942
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  US battleship Pennsylvania bombards Kiska on May 11, 1943.
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  Map of US Kiska landings, August, 1943.
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  US lands on Kiska.
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  LSTs unload on Kiska, August 1943.