Battle of Attu was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Alaska, 1943.
From May 11 to May 30, 1943, United States forces, supported by Canadian airmen, fought to retake Attu from its Japanese garrison in the only land battle of World War II waged on the soil of the incorporated United States. American troops landed and pushed inland through cold, fog, and mountainous terrain against entrenched defenders under Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki. The fighting was slow and brutal, much of it at close quarters, and cost the Americans heavy casualties from combat as well as frostbite and exposure. It ended when Yamasaki launched one of the war's largest banzai charges, which briefly broke through American lines before being wiped out; almost the entire Japanese garrison was killed or died by suicide, with only a handful taken prisoner. The victory returned Attu to American control and set up the recapture of Kiska.
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