How The US Suffered 300 Casualties Storming An Empty Island In WWII
By James Clark
on July 21, 2016
During World War II, Allied forces attacked an uninhabited island and suffered 300 casualties. Here’s how that happened.
On Aug. 15, 1943, a massive Allied force assaulted a North Pacific island at the height of World War II. A joint force of 34,000 American and Canadian troops, supported by warplanes and naval bombardment, moved inland through frigid and unforgiving terrain searching for occupying Japanese forces.
By the end of the second day, 300 Allied soldiers lay dead or wounded. However, there wasn’t a Japanese soldier in sight. The island had been evacuated three weeks prior. It was completely deserted.
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