Alaska at War, 1941-1945

The Forgotten War Remembered

Edited by Fern Chandonnet

Edited by Fern Chandonnet

Distributed for University of Alaska Press

474 pages | black and white photos | 8-1/2 x 11 | © 2008
Paper $29.95 ISBN: 9781602230132 Published September 2007
Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Contents

ALASKA AT WAR

 

Georgeanne L Reynolds

            Introduction and Acknowledgments

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

 

Dean C. Allard

            Naval Views on the North Pacific before and during the World War II

William A. Jacobs

            American National Strategy in the Asian and Pacific War

M.V. Bezeau

Strategic Cooperation: The Canadian Commitment to the Defense of Alaska in the Second World War

Brian Garfield

            The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians

Hisashi Takahashi

            The Japanese Campaign in Alaska

Alvin D. Coox

            Reflecting on the Alaska Theater in Pacific War Operations, 1942-1945

Buck Delkettie

            An Alaskan Scout Remembers

William Draper

            A Brush with War

George F. Earle

            Painting with the Tenth Mountain

 

WAR IN THE NORTH PACIFIC

 

B.B. Talley and Virginia  M. Talley

            Building Alaska’s Defenses in World War II

Admiral James Russell

            Recollections of Dutch Harbor, Attu, and Kiska in World War II

William S. Hanable

            Theobald Revisited

Fern Chandonnet

            The Recapture of Attu

Alastair Neely

            The First Special Service Force and Canadian Involvement at Kiska

Galen R. Perras

Canada’s Greenlight force and the Invasion of Kiska, 1943

George F. Earle

            Kiska: Birth of a Division

Teruo Nishijima

            Recalling the Battle of Attu

Gary J. Candelaria

            Tin Can at War: The USS “Monaghan” and the War in Alaska

Karl Kaoru Kasukabe

            The Escape of the Japanese Garrison from Kiska

M. Joseph Leahy

            The Coast Guard at War in Alaska

Ralph M. Bartholomew

            The Tenth Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron, Eleventh Army Air Force

Joseph M. May and Harold Steinhoff

            Life of Adak, 1942-1944

Steven M Morrisette

            The Story of Three B-24s, Fairbanks, 1942

            The Man who Walked out of Charley River

 

DEFENDING THE TERRITORY

 

Zachary Irwin

            Search and Rescue in the Air Transport Command, 1943-1945

Chris Wooley and Mike Martz

            The Tundra Army: Patriots of Arctic Alaska

Ray Hudson

            Aleuts in Defense of their Homeland

 

THE ALASKA HIGHWAY

 

Heath Twichell

            The Wartime Alaska Highway: Boon or Boondoggle?

William R. Hunt and Alex Hunt

            The Wrong Route: Donald MacDonald and the Alaska Highway

Norman Bush

            The Alcan Saga, 1942-1943

Harry Yost

            Snapshots from a Soldier’s Scrapbook

Jane Haigh

Roadside Development along the Alaska Highway: The Impact of World War II on Military Construction on the Alaska Highway Corridor

 

WAR’S IMPACT ON THE HOME FRONT

 

David A. Hales

            World War II in Alaska: A View from the Diaries of Ernest Gruening

Stephen W. Haycox

            Mining the Federal Government: The War and the All-American City

Bob King

            The Salmon Industry at War

Michael Burwell

            The SS “Northwestern”: The Ship that Always Came Back

Frank Norris

Hollywood, Alaska, and Politics: The Impact of World War II on Films about the North Country

W. Connor Sorensen

            The Civilian Conservation Corp in Alaska and National Preparedness

Helen Butcher

            My Alaska War Years, 1941-1946

Gaye L. Goerig

            The Civilian Population—Seldovia

Timothy Rawson

            World War II through “The Alaska Sportsman” Magazine

Ronald K. Inouye

For Immediate Sale: Tokyo Bathhouse—How World War II Affected Alaska’s Japanese Civilians

Nancy Yaw Davis

            Childhood Memories of the War: Sitka

 

MINORITIES IN ALASKA’S MILITARY

 

Lael Morgan

            Race Relations and the Contributions of Minority Troops in Alaska

Charles Hendricks

            A Challenge to the Status Quo?

Sylvia K. Kobayashi

            I Remember What I Want to Forget

 

ALEUT RELOCATION AND RESTITUTION

 

Dean Kohlhoff

            ‘It Only Makes My Heart Want to Cry’: How Aleuts Faced the Pain of Evacuation

            The Politics of Restitution

Henry Steward

            Aleuts in Japan, 1942-1945

Marie Matsuno Nash, Office of Sen. Stevens

            An Alaskan Who Was Interned Introduces Remarks by Senator Ted Stevens

Flore Lekanof Sr.

            Aleut Evacuation: Effect on the People

 

LEND-LEASE

 

Baker B. Beard

            The Bradley Mission: The Evolution of the Alaska-Siberia Air Route

Daniel L. Haulman

            The Northwest Staging Route

Tat’iana Kosheleva

            The Construction and Use of the Fairanks-Kranoiarsk Air Route, 1942-1945

Alexander B. Dolitsky

            Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease to Russia

David S. Raisman

            The Alaska-Siberia Friendship Route

Richard A. Russell

            The Hula Operation

 

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

 

Larry Murphy and Daniel Lenihan

            Underwater Archeology of the World War II Aleutian Campaign

Charles E. Diters

Attu and Kiska, 2043: How Much of the Past Can the Present Save for the Future?

Linda Cook

            The Landscape of a Landmark: Strategies for Preservation

Barbara S. Smith

            Making it Right: Restitution for Aleut Churches Damaged in World War II

Jack E. Sinclair

Turning the Forgotten into the Remembered: The making of Caines Head State Recreation Area

R. Bruce Parham

Right Before your Eyes: Finding Alaska’s World War II Records in the National Archives

 

THE WAR’S AFTERMATH

 

John H. Cloe

            The Legacy of the War

John T. Farquhar

Northern Shield and Drawn Arrow: Alaska’s Role in Air Force Reconnaissance Efforts, 1946-1948

Janice Reeve Ogle

            The Air Route Nobody Wanted: Reeve Aleutian Airways

Leo J. Hannan

A Legacy of World Warf II: Alaska Territorial Guard/Alaska State Guard

Gwynneth Gminder Wilson

            A Well-Kept Secret

John Cloe, Elmer Freeman, and Lael Morgan

            Writing about the War

 

R. Bruce Parham

            Selected bibliography

 

            Index

 

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