The Aleutian Islands are not part of the North American mainland. If we were talking about talks on U.S. sovereign soil (is that what you meant?) we'd have to

The Aleutian Islands are not part of the North American mainland. If we were talking about talks on U.S. sovereign soil (is that what you meant?) we'd have to include Pearl Harbor as well. Also, this source gives American casualties as 3,929 (!) of which only 549 (!!!) were combat casualties: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=20 http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=20 Friendly fire and Japanese booby traps apparently account for most of the remainder. The most infamous friendly fire incidents occurred during Operation Cottage, when the US invaded an island that the Japanese had already abandoned two weeks earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage