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Aleutian World War II National Historic Area

Name: Aleutian World War II National Historic Area
Address: Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Island chain, 800 miles west of Anchorage, Unalaska, AK, 99685, US

Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Island chain, 800 miles west of Anchorage

Unalaska, AK 99685

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During World War II the remote Aleutian Islands, home to the Unangan (Aleut) people for over 8,000 years, became a fiercely contested battleground in the Pacific. This thousand-mile-long archipelago saw invasion by Japanese forces, the only American soil occupied in the war; a mass internment of American civilians; a 15-month air war; and one of the deadliest battles in the Pacific Theater.

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