Alaska’s windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. In June of 1942 Imperial Japanese forces occupied the remote Aleutian islands of Kiska and Attu in this little-known occupation of North American territory. For thirteen months the Japanese maintained a garrison of 8000 troops on Kiska and then quickly abandoned the island leaving behind all manner of equipment and artifacts.
Author Brendan Coyle has made two sojourns to the Aleutians and spent 51 days camped on Kiska, searching out and photographing the tunnels, weapons, wrecks and personal effects of this brief and obscure battle of the Pacific war.
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