7 Aug 1942
Alaska
Alaska
- Task Force 8 consisting of USS Indianapolis, USS Nashville, USS Louisville, USS Honolulu, USS St. Louis, and escorts bombard Japanese positions on Kiska Island near the western end of Alaska's Aleutian chain. ww2dbase [Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | Honolulu | Indianapolis | Louisville | St. Louis | Nashville | Kiska | DS]
4 Apr 1943
Alaska
Alaska
- I-168 transferred men from Kiska to Attu in the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | Kiska | CPC]
18 Jul 1943
Alaska
Alaska
- 2 B-24 and 6 B-25 bombers of the US Eleventh Air Force B-24 attacked Japanese positions at Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Aleutian Islands Campaign | Kiska | CPC]
21 Jul 1943
Alaska
Alaska
- 9 B-24 bombers of US 11th Air Force bombed Kiska, Aleutian Islands while two US Navy destroyers bombarded the Gertrude Cove area of the same island. ww2dbase [Aleutian Islands Campaign | Kiska | CPC]
4 Aug 1943
Alaska
Alaska
- A radar-equipped PBY Catalina conducted a pre-dawn bombing raid of the Japanese submarine base and main camp area on Kiska Island. The single Catalina also dropped 92 empty beer bottles (for the disconcerting whistling effect they produced) on those targets. ww2dbase [PBY Catalina | Aleutian Islands Campaign | Kiska | DS]
15 Aug 1943
Alaska
Alaska
- Supported by a massive bombardment from three battleships, cruisers and destroyers and under a protective umbrella of 170 aircraft, 35,000 American and Canadian troops stormed ashore on Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands only to discover that the Japanese had fled nearly three weeks earlier. ww2dbase [Aleutian Islands Campaign | Kiska | AC]
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