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Into the Endless Mist: Volume 1: The Aleutian Campaign, June-August 1942
Michal A. Piegzik
Despite the initial supremacy at sea in the North Pacific, the Japanese could only defend their newly established positions in Aleutians and wait for the opponent's move. The great disaster at Midway scuttled the plan to create a greater defensive perimeter, stretching from the far north to the Central Pacific, to intercept American carriers on their way to strike Tokyo again. Ironically, after the battle of Midway, neither the Americans had enough forces to reconquer two lost islands, nor could they predict the enemy's long-term objectives. Japanese presence on the US land, remote on maps but seen as a natural highway to Alaska's doors, also wreaked havoc among military personnel and politicians in Washington D.C., sharing the same fear of an attack on the Western Coast.
The Aleutian campaign was never meant to threaten Alaska or Seattle significantly. After the withdrawal of the Japanese carriers from the North Pacific, nothing but a stalemate could be achieved by Nippon Kaigun. Due to limited resources and severe weather conditions, the struggle for the Aleutians turned into the exchange of blows, while waiting for the outcome of the Guadalcanal Campaign.
Volume 1 covers the events from Operation 'AL' (including the Japanese raid on Dutch Harbor and the invasion of Attu and Kiska) to the American landing on Adak in late August 1942.
'Lost in the Mist and Sheer Cold' is an account of the forgotten struggle in the Aleutians, based on meticulous research of American and Japanese primary sources, testimonies, monographs, and papers. The book's goal is to present the most objective image of a campaign in which the weather largely decided victory and defeat - or life and death.
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