Battle of Kiska was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Alaska, 1943.
On August 15, 1943, a large Allied force of roughly 34,000 American and 5,300 Canadian troops landed on Kiska in Operation Cottage, expecting a hard fight to clear the last Japanese-held island in the Aleutians. Unknown to Allied commanders, the Japanese garrison had secretly evacuated the entire island under cover of fog about two weeks earlier, so the landings met no enemy. Even so, the operation proved deadly: troops advancing through fog fired on one another in confusion, and mines and booby traps left behind caused further losses, while a Japanese mine badly damaged a destroyer offshore. Dozens of men were killed and many more wounded in the empty-island assault. The unopposed capture completed the Aleutian Campaign and returned all of the occupied Aleutians to American control, ending the only World War II campaign fought on North American territory.
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