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Forgotten War Volume 1 by Stan Cohen Pictorial History Alaska NW Canada SC
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The Forgotten War Volume 1
A pictorial history of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada
Stan Cohen
260 Pages
Copyright 1981
16th Printing October 1991
Contents
Introduction vi
Acknowledgements vii
Photo credits viii
Chapter 1North Country Defenses 1867-1941 2
Chapter 2Northwest Staging Route 10
Chapter 3The Alaska Highway16
Chapter 4The Canol Project 34
Chapter 5Lend-Lease to Russia 44
Chapter 6Transportation Systems 56
Chapter 7Towns and Airfields 72
Chapter 8North Country at War 92
Chapter 9Aleutian Islands Defenses 110
Chapter 10Dutch Harbor 126
Chapter 11Adak 140
Chapter 12Amchitka 148
Chapter 13The Navy at War 154
Chapter 14The Air Force at War 166
Chapter 15The Battle of Attu 188
Chapter 16The Kiska Occupation 208
Chapter 17Legacy of the War 234
Bibliography 257
Appendix 258
Index 259
Maps:
1.Alaska and Northwestern Canada x and xi
2.Proposed Routes for the Alaska Highway
Project 17
3.Plan of Operation - Alaska Highway 19
4.The Canol Project 35
5.Railroads of the North Country 62
6.Proposed Route of the Trans-Canadian,
Alaska and Western Railroad 66
7.Route of the Navy Seabee Expedition to the
Arctic Slope in 1944 93
8.Major Military Installations in Alaska during
World War II 99
9.Aleutian Islands 112 and 113
10.Captured Japanese Map of the Aleutian Islands
Invasion Force 122
11.Movement of Japanese Forces in the
Aleutian Campaign, 1942 123
12.Unalaska Island and Dutch Harbor 132
13.Japanese Kurile Islands 168
14.Battle of Attu 191
15.Kiska Harbor 209
16.Kiska Island showing Track of Evacuation
Force 29 July 1943 213
17.Kiska Invasion Landings 216
Back of the Book
The Battle of Attu was the second most costly battle as per troops involved in the Pacific Theater for the United States during the war.
The Battle of Attu was the first amphibious island invasion by the U.S. Army in World War II.
The first bombing of the Japanese homeland by land based Navy bombers was from the Aleutian Islands.
More than one billion dollars was spent on construction projects in Alaska and northwestern Canada by the U.S. Government in World War II.
The Alaska-Highway-Canol Project was the largest overseas construction project during the war.
The first invasion of U.S. soil since the War of 1812 happened in the Aleutian Islands in 1942.
The first Japanese Zero captured intact in the war was on Atkun Island in July 1942.
The longest continuous telephone line in the world was strung from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Edmonton, Alberta, along the Alaska Highway.
The Battle of the Komandorskis in March 1943 was the longest continuous gunnery battle in modern naval history.
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