In June 1942, a Japanese invasionof Alaska's Aleutian Islands took America by surprise....

[narrator] In June 1942, a Japanese invasion
of Alaska's Aleutian Islands took America by surprise. They retaliated by launching
an all-out campaign
to recapture the islands. Victory was secured
14 months later
at a heavy cost. Victory was secured
14 months later
at a heavy cost. Nearly 4000 American
and Japanese soldiers
had lost their lives. The native Unangan people,
who had lived on the islands
for 8,000 years, also suffered
the horrors of war, not only at the hands
of the Japanese. [Laresa] After the bombing,
the American government rounded up
all the Unangan people and interned them
in southeast Alaska
to abandoned fish camps