Japanese occupation of Kiska was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Alaska, 1942.
On June 6, 1942, a Japanese force of roughly five hundred troops under Captain Takeji Ono landed on Kiska in the western Aleutians, overrunning a small U.S. Navy weather station. Two American sailors were killed and the rest of the ten-man detachment captured, apart from one man who evaded the Japanese for about seven weeks before surrendering. Together with the landing on Attu a day later, the seizure of Kiska placed Japanese forces on United States territory. Japan steadily reinforced the island, building up a garrison of several thousand men with coastal guns, antiaircraft defenses, and a submarine base, making Kiska a far tougher objective than Attu. American aircraft and warships bombarded it repeatedly through 1942 and 1943, and retaking it became a central aim of the Aleutian Campaign, culminating in the Allied landing of August 1943.
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