Battle of Dutch Harbor

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Battle of Dutch Harbor
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II

Buildings burning after the first Japanese air attack on Dutch Harbor, June 3, 1942.
Date June 3 – 4, 1942
Location Aleutian Islands, off Alaska
Result Japanese victory
Belligerents
Flag of the United States United States Flag of the Empire of Japan Empire of Japan
Commanders
United States Navy:
Flag of the United States Robert Alfred Theobald

United States Army:
Flag of the United States Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.		 Imperial Japanese Navy:
Flag of Japan Boshiro Hosogaya,
Flag of Japan Kakuji Kakuta
Casualties and losses
78 dead,
3 captured,
14 aircraft destroyed
Dutch Harbor moderately damaged		 10 dead,
5 captured,
8 aircraft destroyed
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Aleutian Islands campaign
Dutch Harbor – Kiska – Komandorski – Attu – Cottage
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Pacific Ocean theater

The Battle of Dutch Harbor took place June 3 – June 4, 1942 and was an air and naval battle of the Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II between Imperial Japanese Navy and United States Army and Navy forces.

[edit] Battle

In the battle, a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force under Kakuji Kakuta launched air attacks over two days against the U.S. military base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The attacks inflicted moderate damage on the U.S. base. Shortly thereafter, Japanese naval forces under Boshiro Hosogaya invaded and occupied Attu and Kiska islands in the Aleutians.

During the battle, a damaged Japanese Zero fighter plane crash-landed on a nearby island, killing the pilot but not seriously damaging the plane. U.S. forces recovered, inspected, and repaired the plane, a type that had proven very troublesome to the Allies in the war to date.


[edit] References

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  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (1951 (Reprint 2001)). Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944, vol. 7 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-316-58305-7. 
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