Battle of Dutch Harbor was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Alaska, 1942.
On June 3 and 4, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched carrier air raids on the U.S. naval base at Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island in the Aleutians, timed with the larger Japanese operation against Midway. Aircraft from two Japanese carriers bombed the base in two strikes, hitting barracks, oil storage tanks, and ships in the harbor, while the defenders, including Army infantry and coast artillery, Marines, and aircraft of the Eleventh Air Force, put up antiaircraft fire and fought back in the air. Dozens of Americans were killed. The raid marked the first aerial attack by a foreign enemy on a base in the North American mainland region and opened the Aleutian Campaign. One downed Japanese Zero was later recovered nearly intact, the famous "Akutan Zero," giving American engineers a valuable look at Japan's front-line fighter.
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