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The mainland you mean, not the U.S. as a whole - since part of Alaska was invaded and seized. One of the reasons that's not well-known is that I believe it was
by Nomentatus 4y ago
The mainland you mean, not the U.S. as a whole - since part of Alaska was invaded and seized. One of the reasons that's not well-known is that I believe it was kept secret during the war as it was a tad embarrassing.
- shepherdjerred 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign It wasn’t a very successful invasion. They held a couple of islands for two months at the cost of 4000 of their 8000 men.
- Nomentatus 4y agoHowever it's worth noting that the invasion caused at least tens of thousands of deaths and probably hundreds of thousands of deaths in North America - because the US and Canada built the Alaska highway to counter the Japanese; and that project spread illnesses to such as TB to native people who had never encountered them before; with a staggering deathtoll amongst them. Also not reported during the war.