[Bratch]

[Vigilanteman]

Years ago, I met a grizzled old North Dakota veteran of Guadalcanal. He actually wished he’d been sent to Attu instead. “What was the army thinking,” he asked me, “when they sent North Dakota boys to fight on Guadalcanal and Arizona boys to fight on Attu?”

[muawiyah]

The key thing to remember is that for subarctic conditions you need the proper equipment and people who are pre-adapted to that climate ~ or worse.

Otherwise all military actions will need to be isolated to late July and early August.

Or, use robots.

[skeeter]

The Battle of Komandorski Islands was very nearly a catastrophe for us. As it ended it was pretty much a draw.

[stormer]

My father and my father-in-law both served in the Aleutian Campaign. FIL was an Army anti-aircraft artilleryman and my dad was in the Navy. My dad ended the war with nine battle stars serving on the Fleet Oiler USS Neches AO47, that was involved in every major invasion in the Pacific. Anyway, with all that action and despite hitting a mine, kamikazes, having his ship used as bait to entice the Japanese fleet at Leyte, and the Okinawa Typhoon in 1945, he says his most terrifying experience was a storm in the Bering Sea.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The Battle of Attu (May 11 to May 30, 1943) was the only World War II land battle fought on incorporated U.S. territory."

What about the battle of Wake Island? The Japanese landed and fought until Major Devereux surrendered his men. That was incorporated U.S. territory and the Japanese occupied that until the very end of WWII. They surrendered it in September 1945.