bigpigeon.us webpage WWII - Japan > North Pacific, updated by RAC 16 May 2022.
Links to subordinate webpages:
Most WW II US military activity in the North Pacific involved Alaska Territory, which included the long Aleutian Island chain shown in the following map.
Links to subordinate webpages:
- Alaska
- Attu & Kiska
- Pacific Lend-Lease Routes - not yet written.
Most WW II US military activity in the North Pacific involved Alaska Territory, which included the long Aleutian Island chain shown in the following map.
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In theory the long Kurile and Aleutian island chains in the North Pacific could serve during WW II( either as a Japanese route for attacks on North America or as an Allied route for attacks on northern Japan.
In practice, vile weather made major military operations in this theater untenable. |
Today the major military use of the North Pacific in WW II is little known. Pending.
Sources for the North Pacific webpage:
- The WW II - The North Pacific Area of the Pacific Theater map was found at https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Guadalcanal/maps/USA-P-Guadalcanal-I.jpg.
- The NW Pacific - WW II map is courtesy of davidrumsey.com
- The North Pacific Lend-Lease Routes map is courtesy of https://lend-lease.net/articles-en/the-unknown-world-war-ii-in-the-northern-pacific/.