Japan’s invasion of Alaska and the only World War II land campaign on American soil

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...
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The night 840 marines stopped 3,000 attackers in World War II

In September 1942, during World War II, a small force of U.S. Marines defended a narrow jungle ridge on Guadalcanal against repeated Japanese assaults. Outnumbered and exhausted, fewer than 1,000 ...