Japanese Invasion of Alaska - Pacific War #29 Animated Historical DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues with another video in the series. Last week, we covered one of the most important battles of the Pacific War, the milestone that stopped the expansion of the Japanese Empire and allowed the Americans to go on the offensive for the first time in the war. But concurrent to the Battle of Midway and the death of the 1st Kido Butai, Admiral Yamamoto had devised a plan to strike Dutch Harbor and invade the first territory in North America: the Aleutian Islands. With huge resources allocated to this operation, the American defenders in Alaska were about to meet one of the most significant invasion forces this soil would ever see, so join us as we delve deeper into the struggle for Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
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Pacific War #2 - Japanese Invasion of Malaya: • Japanese Invasion of M...
Pacific War #3 - Japanese attack on Guam, Wake, and the Philippines: • Japan Attacks Everywhe...
Pacific War #4 - Japan Continues Attacking: Borneo, Philippines: • Japan Continues Attack...
Pacific War #5 - Fall of Wake Island: • Fall of Wake Island - ...
Pacific War #6 - Battle of Kampar: • Battle of Kampar - Pac...
Pacific War #7 - Battle of Slim River: • Battle of Slim River -...
Pacific War #8 - Battle for the Dutch East Indies: • Battle for the Dutch E...
Pacific War #9 - Invasion of New Britain: • Invasion of New Britai...
Pacific War #10 - Fall of Malaya: • Fall of Malaya - Pacif...
Pacific War #11 - Battle of Makassar Strait: • Battle of Makassar Str...
Pacific War #12 - Fall of Singapore: • Fall of Singapore - Pa...
Pacific War #13 - Invasion of Sumatra: • Japanese Invasion of S...
Pacific War #14 - Invasion of Timor: • Japanese Invasion of T...
Pacific War #15 - Fall of Java: • Fall of Java - Pacific...
Pacific War #16 - Fall of Rangoon: • Fall of Rangoon - Paci...
Pacific War #17 - How the US Responded to Pearl Harbor: • How the US Responded t...
Pacific War #18 - Hideki Tojo: Bringing Japan Into The Pacific War: • Hideki Tojo: Bringing ...
Pacific War #19 - Japanese Raids in the Indian Ocean: • Japanese Raids in the ...
Pacific War #20 - Fall of Bataan & The Bataan Death March: • Fall of Bataan & The B...
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Pacific War #22 - Japanese Advance on Burma Road: • Japanese Advance on Bu...
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[@magellantv]

Thank you for bringing light to such important history!

[@RoboticDragon]

And thank you as well Magellan

[@magellantv]

@@RoboticDragon It's our pleasure, honestly!

[@bradyelich2745]

See my post. It could be better if they included the people involved. Th Canadians shot down a Zero in a Hurricane.

[@ShortReviewerRetroGames]

Also task force 8 and Canada pacific fleet from Victoria BC attacked ijn navy This my favorite story Soon both Navy's engaged and retreated thinking each force had more in reserve, if Japan would of chased the fleet Alaska would of fell.

[@ShortReviewerRetroGames]

Also why did you say the natives were pow?? They where killed thrown of cliffs by Japanese, USA army documented this, But why don't you mention Canada's role

[@ZergleJerk]

"He began to illegally construct airfields using funds he had embezzelled" That is...the most American sentence ever spoken. I'm so proud.

[@lafeelabriel]

Should look up his dad some time, he's quite the interesting read. That'd be US Civil war general (Confederate) Simon Bolivar Buckner(sr). Put the senior in like that because JR wasn't even born till 21 years after that war ended.

[@KillroyWasHere86]

So I bet everyone knew what he was doing but no one was motivated enough to point it out. Great story.

[@MinesAGuinness]

I rather think the most American sentence was "The Americans decided to evacuate the Western Aleutians - interning some 881 native Aleuts in relocation camps in south-eastern Alaska and burning their villages to the ground." As Erin Blakemore writes in the Smithsonian: 'The internment camps the Aleut evacuees were forced to live in were "abandoned canneries, a herring saltery, and gold mine camp-rotting facilities with no plumbing, electricity or toilets.” There, they had little potable water, no warm winter clothing, and sub-par food. Nearly 10 percent of the evacuees died in the camps. Some of the men were even enslaved during their detainment, forced to harvest fur seals and threatened with continued detainment if they refused.'

[@lafeelabriel]

@@KillroyWasHere86 More like needs must, and let's sort out if we need to prosecute him after the war. Turned out they didn't have to as he was KIA during the battle of Okinawa..

[@ZergleJerk]

@@MinesAGuinness Damn straight. And we'd do it again too.

[@wolfu597]

It was in the Aleutians that the Allies had one of their greatest intelligence scoops of the Pacific War. On the 4th June, a new and inexperienced Zero pilot named Tadayoshi Koga, took of from the carrier Ryujo in an attack on Dutch Harbor, where his plane took a hit that cut his oil line. This forced him to make an emergency landing on the island of Akutan, where he found a long, grass covered landing strip, designated by the IJA as an emergency landing strip. But as soon as Koga's plane touched the ground, the wheels buried themselves into the soggy ground, flip the plane on it's back and broke Koga's neck. On July 11th, a PBY spotted the wreck through a break in the clouds. After three attempts, the Navy managed to salvaged the wreck, and had it shipped to San Diego to studied and analyzed. Many people nowadays doesn't even know about this event, nor it's importance for the war effort. Up to this point, the Zero has been known in name only. Now, by a stroke of luck, the Allies now had an intact Zero, if you disregard the cosmetic damage. The studies revealed that the Zero had no armor protection and no self-sealing fuel tanks, which we all know today. But it also revealed that the Zero had two additional Achilles heels. First, it could not perform rolls at moderately high speed. Second, it's poorly designed carburetor caused the engine to sputter badly when diving at high speed. With this info, the Allies started developing new tactics to combat the Zero. And at Grumman, the aircraft designers started working on the Wildcat's replacement, the F6F Hellcat, popularly referred to as: the Zero killer. Given the fact that it shot down about 75% of all Japanese shoot down during WWII by US Naval aviators. Masatake Okumiya, who led several Zero squadrons during the war, wrote in his book 'Zero', that the recovery of Koga's plane, had the same impact on the Japanese war effort as the battle of Midway.

[@aegystierone8505]

Wait.....so what did they Americans did with Koga's dead body?

[@Pure_Havoc]

significant indeed but i do think the Zero was a bit exaggerate similar to the Bismarck.

[@wolfu597]

@@aegystierone8505 They buried him. Next to the crash site.

[@paulceglinski3087]

Sometimes a little luck is better than a year of planning.

[@drfabriciomnogueira]

True. The book "Zero" are more detailed about. And on "Midway", by Okumiya and Mitsuo Fuchida, the crash are mentioned on 2 ou 3 lines. Both excelent books, by the way 😎

[@PhilHug1]

Glad you guys covered this. I've seen tons of WW2 documentaries but only one ever covered this. You've joined an exclusive club.

[@snieves4]

I love how the other allies side are covered. Id like to see DDay from British/ca perspective

[@Perkelenaattori]

@@AJ-sw8uf I would say Timeghost does an excellent job in covering WW2.

[@mattmobily1975]

I had no idea an attempted invasion of US soil was pursued by the Axis forces.

[@ftwcrazyman]

@@AJ-sw8uf Mark Felton is just Wikipedia text-to-speech over footage compilation 😂. There's nothing indepth from the article he's voicing over unlike KG

[@mannymejia4339]

@@ftwcrazyman he must be a very good reader then, the man has a doctorate lol

[@JBXyooj]

Ha... that whole quote about the Japanese just slowly becoming American Citizens because it would've taken forever to capture Alaska is hilarious haha

[@apexnext]

It sounds like something someone more modern would say, it is great. 😂

[@andrewprice1774]

I heard another one... talking about Hawaii's Japanese immigrants ..what the Japanese couldn't take by force into forty's they took with cash in the 60's and 70's!!

[@Tommykey07]

I can't believe a movie hasn't been made about this. The only land combat in the war on North American soil.

[@bolobalaman]

Yup the closest we ever get to a Red Dawn/ MW2 invasion on US scenario

[@jameshill8493]

There’s lots of Old war stuff out in woods/ crashed on glaciers etc… The ones I’ve seen probably aren’t from combat but still cool from that era

[@ShortReviewerRetroGames]

They call it the lost battle Look up lost Alaskan battles great read

[@rosswebster7877]

Glad to see K&G cover the Aleutian Campaign! I also want to give a shout out to a long departed friend of my parents, Charles "Mucktuck" Marston who during the Imperial Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, helped organize and train the Alaskan Home Guard made up largely of Inuit and Native Alaskans. After the war, he helped draft Alaska's state constitution securing Native civil rights.

[@apexnext]

Mucktuck is is an awesome nickname! Thanks for sharing.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

I think I want to know more about Buckner and the funds he embezzled.

[@joshdasmiter3]

My grandfather served for three years on the Alaskan islands. Never saw any combat but a lesser known area of combat in WWII

[@theawesomeman9821]

at least he' survived

[@josephhigbe8904]

My grandfather was on Attu for three years. I think there was a battle there.

[@tjedwards1870]

My Great Grandpa was also up in Alaska for a time before going back down to the south pacific. What a great generation of men!

[@ZENIGMATV]

I have a photo of my Grandfather in Alaska with Japanese skulls on his tent.

[@joshdasmiter3]

@@ZENIGMATV not to cast any doubt but where in Alaska was he? Tents for shelter in Alaska?? ….grandad complained he spent his time shivering in a barracks half the year and the other half building stuff

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

As an Alaskan, I find this to be exceptionally fascinating

[@ShuuuuutUp]

I had no idea they invaded Alaska, thanks for the information.

[@kayvan671]

I already knew about it. But i underestimated the importance of this invasion.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@kayvan671 I think most people did because all I'd ever heard was that it was a feint.

[@Yuki_Ika7]

My great grandpa Lieutenant Commander (at the time, he later worked his way up to a rear admiral) Carroll Burgess Jones was a Commanding Officer of Patrol Squadron 43 (later known as Patrol Bomber Squadron 43) of Patrol Wing 4 on PBY-5 Catalinas who lead his Squadron in the raid on Kiska Harbor, With his own plane pierced by shrapnel and lighter caliber projectiles from enemy fire, he was forced to fly blind on pull-outs, avoiding the perilous cloud-obscured mountains surrounding the bay at Kiska. Leading his squadron over the Aleutian Islands, without benefit of fighter escort, he directed perilous, low-altitude bombing attacks on enemy ships in Kiska harbor. At less than 1,000 feet, he released his bombs, probably sinking two hostile vessels and destroying two planes despite fierce machine gun opposition from six hostile fighters. He was Awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in the war.

[@TaraZaraChara]

I've honestly never delved into this footnote in history. Thanks for bringing this interesting and overlooked campaign to light in your usual style!

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

Hell of a quote bij Simon Bolivar Buckner. Sadly, he got killed at Okinawa.

[@wavesofzen5383]

I didn't know this happened this is actually cool. These military commanders are pretty badass on both sides.

[@10Tabris01]

Wasn't Simon Buckner Jr. a grandson or something alike of the Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner?

[@minoru5760]

Again, Thanks K&G for telling another fact. From Japanese perspective, Gen. Simon Buckner Jr. is famous for his Army-Marine units, or in Okinawa. I've never been told about his Battle of Alaska. So this is the main theatre of World War.

[@joshuacjleim]

My week ain't complete until I watch a video from this series

[@petestorz172]

Ryujo and Junyo were the IJN's second- or third-team of the IJN's carrier force. Ryujo was small - in tonnage and aircraft complement - and not the best reliability. Junyo was only a bit larger, carried a similar complement of aircraft, and was slower than Ryujo (which was similar in speed to Kaga, the slowest of Kido Butai). They would have been adequate to seriously damage Dutch Harbor, probably, but were, obviously, much hindered by the weather.

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

Was the use of converted civilian hulls made Junyo Class slower with smaller hangar compare to purpose-built hulls?

[@wtgardner6914]

Fascinating look at an ill-covered part of the Pacific War. Extremely interesting and love your detailed maps. I like that you incorporated the Midway battle into this, but still gave it a stand alone episode. Very rarely is this part of the war mentioned and even then only as a passing comment. Great work again!

[@bishop6218]

"I'm an IJN pilot. I'm the Elite. My kill list includes a battleship, two destroyers, and a truck..."

[@sumedhraosurendramalandkar4056]

Ngl, one of the best historical series ever! Great work as always KnG

[@trashrabbit69]

Such a wild campaign that's never discussed in other media. Thanks for this video! Really crazy things happened in this rather unknown part of the Pacific Theater.

[@ATownDown32]

A small mistake made was for task force 8 the cruisers listed as heavy (Honolulu, St louis) were both light cruisers.

[@CartoonHistory]

This is really interesting. I especially love the way the information is presented, really clean and smooth graphic animations - inspiring!

[@flyingeagle3898]

blowing everyone else out the water in your detailed coverage of this topic

[@matthewjay660]

Hi Devin. Brilliant narration as usual. We Americans call Admiral Spruance as "SPROO-entz." 👍🏻 Thank-you for all that you do. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

[@mohamedabdelhamed2677]

Being unable to show the hopping Island strategy without making one more video, shows just how much the Japanese didn't give up.

[@Dar_Skirata]

Are there any stats on the survival rates of PBY crews? Considering they had no chance of outrunning carrier-based aircraft or flak and would often crash over open water far from any friendly force or shipping, their job had to be one of the worst.

[@candiman4243]

I would start by looking at the Wikipedia page for the plane, as even if there aren't exact numbers there, you could check the works cited

[@MrFallingfromgrace]

Thank you for these videos… detailed and amazing

[@guyprovencal1742]

Another great installment in the Pacific War series. Thank you!!

[@brianschwarz]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@Gab1Bv]

Love your entire Channel!

[@russellyoung8812]

Thank you so much for all the hard work you guys put into these videos :)

[@NandiCollector]

*This is such a brilliantly done series!*

[@brokenbridge6316]

Glad that this is being covered too. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@TomFynn]

I just realized: While the fighters get all the glory, the job of the recon planes was actually tougher. In a fighter plane, you can at least shoot back, before being shot down.

[@DaFroBroforeal]

I had no idea of this operation before. Thanks, K&G!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , K&G .

[@mattiatenaglia9457]

Thank you very much for the video

[@CMCNestT]

Fascinating stuff!

[@-RONNIE]

Good video 👍🏻 thanks

[@tonymacaronl]

I literally thought about this at work today and how interesting it was. Then you post a video about it… are you stalking me Kings and Generals…

[@Zac-ho3wr]

I had no idea that this happened. Frankly when I saw *Invasion of Alaska* I instantly thought of the Sino-American War from Fallout.

[@MrMacavity]

Very good videos and content 👍 keep up the good work 😃

[@chrismead3150]

What hubris among the IJN officer corps....always so confident of these wildly complex operations. Not even the simplest of military operations ever pan out just right.

[@wildmanhistory]

"If the Japanese come, they may get a foothold. But it will be their children who get as far as Anchorage, and their grandchildren who'll make it to the states. And by then, they'll all be American Citizens anyway." "He began to illegally construct airfields using funds he had embezzled." This man is now my favourite American General of all time. Here's the thing... Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. gets even MORE based. Here are some more quotes: "The loyal courage, vigorous energy and determined fortitude of our armed forces in Alaska-on land, in the air and on the water-have turned back the tide of Japanese invasion, ejected the enemy from our shores and made a fortress of our last frontier. But this is only the beginning. We have opened the road to Tokyo; the shortest, most direct and most devastating to our enemies. May we soon travel that road to victory." -1943 "Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. commands the new US 10th Army, comprising American Soldiers and Marines, which made amphibious landings on Okinawa. Buckner says he intends to Christianize the Japs, and that "the best way to do it is to give them a Christian burial." " -Elmira Star Gazette, Tues. April 3rd 1945, pg. 2

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

The grandchildren of German airmen who escaped the POW farming prisons in Alberta haven't made it back to Berlin yet so he had the point.

[@cameraman1234567890a]

That is so deluded

[@redknight344]

I didnt notice his name was Simón Bolívar haha

[@Native_Creation]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 many German POWs who were detained in Texas also became American citizens

[@banerjeesiddharth05]

Very nice video

[@collintrytsman3353]

keep up the good work

[@paulceglinski3087]

Another excellent outing, K&G. Great detail on this Front. Needless to say that the American youth of today only get a small overview. I went to high school in the '70's and Attu was barely mentioned. Outstanding historical update on the Japanese plan with popular belief that the operation was a feint or something else. Somehow I think the truth likely is somewhere in between. It seems a little too far from Midway to be a covering force, but Yamamoto knew what was what and he ain't talkin'. He had a perchance towards layers of planning so it's possible of some kind of variation of the two possibilities. IDK, but it does give pause for thought. Outstanding video as always. The bell has always been pressed. Cheers.

[@nooneatall8072]

Contemporary scholarship (i.e. authors like Parshall) suggest that the Aleutians campaign was asked for by the Japanese Army for the reasons that K&G mentioned. The IJA were concerned that American long-range bombers and submarines could use the Aleutians as bases. In exchange for their approval of the Midway operation (which the IJA was initially opposed to), and supplying troops to assist in the invasion of Midway, the IJA wanted the Aleutians invaded. So they were. As far a diversion, at best it would seem to be the other way around re. the conventional logic. What better time to seize territory ostensibly in North America than when the US Pacific Fleet was expected to be fully engaged (and destroyed) elsewhere?

[@jaythompson5102]

Man I keep coming on these threads and lauding you guys but in just so blown away by this series. The music, the art style, the content itself .. so incredible!

[@scottkrater2131]

General Simon Buckner Jr. Son of General Simon Buckner, commander of the first Confederate army forced to surrender by General Grant at Fort Donelson. Also highest ranking American officer in WW 2 killed in action on Okinawa.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Well this was something, I just recently came across. And I love it.

[@Unfassbarer]

Danke!

[@ddemier]

Excellent documentry. Please do more WW2 battles

[@maincoon6602]

You produce very good and informative videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@robbabcock_]

Great video on an oft-ignored segment of the war in the Pacific.

[@antonpresura3728]

so extremely interesting

[@KENACT1]

General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was the son of a Confederate general who fought the battle of Fort Donelson. He was the only U.S. general killed by enemy fire in World War II, when he commanded the U.S. Army on Okinawa. During his time as commander in Alaska, his Southern roots compelled him to refuse black troops in his theatre, saying that they would interbreed with the Eskimos and create the ugliest race the world has ever known.

[@jackson857]

Glad we're going to Sydney next week. There's been some renewed press about the attack here in Australia and the failures in the defences that led to it happening.

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting!

[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@amazinggaming9870]

Why did you stop releasing videos on napoloenic wars?

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@amazinggaming9870 no real reason, to be honest

[@amazinggaming9870]

@@KingsandGenerals will you continue it in the future?

[@lukahrastar1562]

Great continuation of the series! For future videos, I have a few suggestions: - History of Sikhism - The Tulip period in the Ottoman empire - Nizam-i Cedid (New Order army) - Battle of Buxar

[@KingsandGenerals]

@@amazinggaming9870 yep, down the line

[@Shadowkey392]

Far too few people know about this string of events. Thanks for talking about it.

[@joshua4960]

You guys Rock

[@808scott]

The forgotten campaign. Wonderful work you do everytime. Someone could get a college degree watching your videos!

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

Here's the interesting stuff I love to see

[@irishpsalteri]

Good. Read 1,000 Miles War for a deep look at this. Thanks for these.

[@Kiranoir]

Hi, thanks for the new video, but don't forget to upload episode 23, thanks

[@Caligulashorse1453]

Probably one of kings and generals best history series

[@argo_1060]

One minor correction. Task group 8.5 was composed of 3 Brooklyn class light cruisers. Honolulu and St. Louis were sister ships of Nashville.

[@dillonschroeder985]

Despite the little damage the Do-little raid did it inflicted massive mental damage, seeming to cause Japan to focus on that event so much leading to the destruction of its own Navy. It's crazy to think about how so much happened and changed after that small air-strike.

[@jamesbugbee6812]

Strangely pleased that Kakuta chose beautiful little Ryujo as his flag 💜.

[@atb2674]

Cracking the code, studying a zero, and winning Midway. The three moments that swayed momentum away from the Empire of Japan altogether

[@bufflarrythegreat1145]

5 secs holy sheets... Thanks for the vid

[@trevorjohnston777]

My Grandpa was one of the Canadians sent to the Aleutians, they got into a fight with the Americans in a friendly fire scenario in Operation Cottage lol

[@BenL2418]

Would you introduce the Battle of Madagascar? Japanese navy was in action at this battle.

[@jacobjones4766]

4:30 its important to note that the tank battalion consisted mostly of obsolete marmot harrington ctls4 light tanks, which were obsolete tanketts.

[@celter.45acp98]

I love how it played a Norwegian cruise lines ad about visiting Alaska

[@albertgreene313]

Thanks. The only thing I know about one of my grandpas service was that while he was building anti-submarine measures, the Japanese attempted this assault but I’ve never know wtf happened.

[@tim_bize]

Covered a lot that I didn't know.

[@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322]

hey, I was wondering if you guys could do a video on the battle of bzura(1939) as part of your modern warfare unit? I think it is a very crucial and epic battle of ww2, that is not really covered in any other historical channels.

[@kaacheetowencruise544]

I'm glad you at least mentioned the internment of the Native residents of the islands. They were sent to a camp in Funter Bay near Juneau, and completely abandoned. The environment here in Southeast was completely foreign to them, and they had difficulty subsisting. It's a shameful and forgotten chapter of US history. Many of them died of hunger and disease. Most would never see their homes again. Meanwhile in nearby Excursion Inlet, German POWs were held in relative luxury.

[@xxchuangtzu6186]

What's the source for the assertion that he embezzled enough money to build a series of airfields? I can't find this anywhere else, and it seems at odds with his career. Buckner had issues with inter-service cooperation, but even his bureaucratic adversaries did not accuse him of this. One source says "Buckner all but embezzled the funds for construction from other projects." but redirecting funds under your control is not the same thing as embezzling (hence the wording in the original).

[@Shadowkey392]

The reason why the invasion of the Aleutians was portrayed as a feint is because it was meant to be one. It’s primary purpose in the moment was to confuse the Americans and cause them to send ships north to counter the Japanese there, thereby weakening their forces at Midway. They probably weren’t expecting to lure the carriers away (not all of them, anyway), but they likely intended to cause the Americans to split their forces, not knowing which attack was the front and which was the real one. It probably would have worked, too, if American intelligence hadn’t cracked the Japanese Navy’s cipher and so been aware of their plans.

[@toastnjam7384]

Aside from the battle of Hong Kong I believe this was only time Canadian ground forces participated in the Pacific Theater when the islands were recapture.

[@BrandonHanson]

You deserve so much credit for this. It's a surprised there's no real discussion about this part of history. Especially for those who think The United States Of America has never been invaded. A side The Philippines when it was an American Territory before becoming an independent country during World War 2.

[@FulcrumHQ99]

i'd love a series on the kokoda campaign of the australian volunteers holding back the japanese imperial army!

[@ryostu1]

Amazing !

[@SeanRCope]

Visited Kiska for two whole days in 1983. A visit I’ll never forget. It’s almost like a secret. Well, it was back then. Now the internet might change things up a bit.

[@bradyelich2745]

Pacific Joint Agreement on Defense signed in 1940. The Canadian Army were involved from beginning to end, from guarding the inside passage where transport and military boats would pass to the final offensive mission, where 5300 Canadian troops landed with the Americans to re-take Kiska. There was a friendly firefight where the USers openned up on the Canadians. The Canadians dealt the most damage in this skirmish, even with conscripts and bolt action rifles. The Royal Canadian Navy had 3 large ships, several corvettes, minesweepers and some sub chasing auxiliary vessels involved. The Royal Canadian Air Force, had approximately 500 personnel up north with at least 5 squadrons participating. The battle marked the first time that Canadian conscripts were sent to a combat zone in the Second World War. The government had pledged not to send draftees "overseas", which it defined as being outside North America. The Aleutians were considered to be North American soil

[@marklelonde6684]

Yes, they seemed to have left that part out?

[@bradyelich2745]

@@marklelonde6684 They also left out the Alaska highway and the Canol Pipeline were both started in 1941 in support.

[@bradyelich2745]

In 1985, while working in Norman Wells, we drove out to an old Canol site. I saw the 6 inch pipeline and some old abandon equipment. Local stories say the US Army buried all their equipment and boats and left in 1944.

[@christopherhanton6611]

WELL DONE YOU ARE COVERING HEAD TO TOE OF WW2 IN PACIFIC , ALSO I AM HAPPY YOU ARE DOING THE MAJOR CAMPIANS AND SMALL ONES . ALSO THIS WHEN ITS GOING TO GET BETTER NOW FOR SURE KEEP IT UP 👍

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

I'd love for you do a series on the North African campaign during WW2, in the future.

[@flolow6804]

In the hindside one has to say that this entire operation was such a wast of time and resources its unbelievable what mental gymnastics went into it to justifiy something like that

[@averagedude191]

My great grandfather fought at Dutch harbor

[@yuppieNL]

Oh my..

[@bakhtiyorakramjonov7606]

"The battle of midway had developed unfavourably for the Japanese "

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

Just like (for Kakuta) ''The battle of Stalingrad/Al Alamein had developed unfavourably for the Japanese" 🤣

[@AS-ir8rv]

I hope that u will do an episode about the battle of Wadi al-Laban between the Moroccans and the Ottoman Empire

[@Numba003]

I knew Japan had considered an attack on Alaska, but I don't think that I knew they actually assaulted and occupied some of the Aleutians. That's wild. Thank you for another very interesting video! Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends. ✝️ :)

[@romyow6326]

16:22 what soundtrack is this?

[@CarlosianBigWang]

It’s incredible how little Alaska being invaded is talked about. Considering they are the only peoples from the region of Asia to invade the America’s.

[@encycl07pedia-]

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