Fighting the Forgotten War: The Attack on Dutch Harbor

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7 жыл бұрын

Veterans recount the attack on Dutch Harbor, June 3 & 4, 1942. This film was presented at the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Dutch Harbor/Unalaska and Aleut Evacuation Event in Unalaska, Alaska in 2017.

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@kentcarter835 4 жыл бұрын

I worked, 40 years ago, with a man who fought at Dutch. I wish he had told me more about it. God bless them all.

@delcross6483 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, honoring great men! Thank you for saving our country. In that video is a pic of the brilliant Japanese Zero fighter over Dutch Harbor, its engine smoking. Though it was unknown at the time, the shot that severed the Zero's oil line later caused the engine to freeze. The Zero made an emergency landing on nearby Akutan island. The pilot was killed but the Zero was later recovered, repaired and flight tested. Those tests showed a way that U.S. pilots could fight the Zero and survive. Whoever fired that shot at Dutch Harbor changed the course of the war and helped save America.

@vanguardoftruth4166 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in Dutch harbor right now, I went to a history memorial to imagine what these brave men went through. Amazing, they built pill boxes in the side of cliffs and had bunkers in the hills. Going in one of those pill boxes was scary enough especially with how high it is from the ground. And it's cold and windy and one wrong move and you can tumble down to the ocean.

@rcdoodles6214 5 жыл бұрын

Great video covering a little known piece of WW 2 history and the courageous people who served in a very desolate location. Thank you.

@Thedearster 6 жыл бұрын

Great music throughout the whole piece.

@AlaskaNPS 6 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Thanks for watching.

@crossfam5940 Жыл бұрын

@@AlaskaNPSdo you have the names of the music you played I’d love to listen to them on their own!

@arcticviking7102 3 жыл бұрын

Great job remember and paying tribute to the sacrifices. God bless

@aarondavis7581 3 жыл бұрын

Spent some time in Dutch harbor commercial fishing. A beautiful place to make a living.

@donadams8831 Жыл бұрын

My father was stationed there for the duration of the war.

@AndrewRGross 4 жыл бұрын

This is a good video, but it barely scratches the surface of a much more interesting history: it omits that the native Alaskans living in the town were forcibly relocated to internment camps to free the land for military use, and that the town was eventually captured by the Japanese, making it the only American soil ever conquered by a foreign power.

@delcross6483 4 жыл бұрын

Dutch Harbor was never captured by the Japanese. They captured two islands further west, Attu and Kiska.

@AndrewRGross 4 жыл бұрын

@@delcross6483 Thanks for the correction. Do you have any recommended reading? I couldn't find much information when I was making my post.

@markpatterson5250 3 жыл бұрын

My step Grandfather was working on a tug boat in Dutch Harbor when it was bombed/strafed in 1942. Dutch Harbor was NEVER occupied by the Japanese. Attu Island and Kiska Island, out at the western tip of the Aleutians were occupied by Japanese. They were occupied as a diversionary tactic to draw American forces away from Midway Island, which did not work out well for the Japanese. Andrew, where did you gather your information from MSNBC?

@vanguardoftruth4166 3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Hertzler that's so sad to hear that the natives were treated that way, god bless your family and the natives for occupying and helping with the war efforts on these amazing islands. War is Hell.

@oldrabidus2230 2 жыл бұрын

Only American soil to be conquered by a foreign power? Might want to look up the War of 1812. Maybe the only US soil occupied by the enemy during WWII, yes but ever? No.