    the aleutian islands campaign was a struggle over the aleutian islands, part of the alaska territory, in the american theater and the pacific theater of world war ii starting on 3 june 1942. a small japanese force occupied the islands of attu and kiska, but the remoteness of the islands and the difficulties of weather and terrain meant that it took nearly a year for a far larger u.s./canadian force to eject them. the islands' strategic value was their ability to control pacific great circle routes. this contro
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