World War II Forgotten Facts: How Imperial Japan Tried to Seize Alaska
The Japanese invasion led the U.S. military to forcibly evacuate more than 800 Aleut natives remaining on the other Aleutian islands to an internment camp in Juneau, Alaska.
Here s What You Need To Remember: As a consequence of the inconclusive skirmish, the Japanese Navy ceased sending surface ships to resupply the garrisons on Kiska and Attu, and switched to submarine-only deliveries. This drastically curtailed the supply situation on the Japanese-held islands, and the garrisons began to suffer from low morale and malnutrition.
There has been growing concern in recent years over the state of U.S. Arctic defenses. In fact, few Americans remember that Alaskan islands seized by Japanese forces remain one of the only cases in which enemy forces successfully occupied U.S. territory during the 20th century.
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The Visionary Surgeon Who Put Trinidad on the Map
For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from
Going To Trinidad tells his and one of his patient s poignant stories.Martin J. Smith •
On December 12, 1990, a law office secretary and part-time English graduate student in Rancho Cucamonga, California, sat down to write a letter that had been nearly four decades in the making. Her name was Claudine Toni Griggs.
The diminutive Griggs had lived as a woman for 16 years, since the summer of 1974, though she’d been born and spent the first 21 years of her life as Claude Anthony Griggs. So complete had been her outward transformation from male to female that few of her friends and professional colleagues knew. At five-feet-five and 120 pounds, she says, “All I had to do to look sexually ambiguous was shave what little facial hair I had.” Plus, for 17 years she’d been takin
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America Built Fake Cities to Hide Its World War II Airplane Factories
The cities and villages sat on top of the secret workshops and was meant to fool Imperial Japanese pilots into thinking they were not worth bombing.
Key Point: The idea was a good one, but one that proved largely unnecessary. Thankfully, Imperial Japan was never able to launch a major, full-scale bombing raid on the West coast.
When I was a young boy in Seattle, my father told me about a fake town that had been built on top of Boeing’s Plant 2 during the war. This naturally fired my imagination. What an ingenious way, I thought, to fool the enemy bombers that might being coming over the Emerald City to wreak havoc.
The housing barracks, built by the U.S. Army engineer corps, at the internment center where Japanese Americans are relocated in Amache, Colo., are shown on June 21, 1943.
Times of war are historically hostile to civil rights. Even U.S. President Abraham Lincoln arguably the most beloved president in history took liberties with the Constitution during the Civil War. For one, he suspended the writ of habeas corpus to allow prisoners to be held without trial. Historians argue whether this was justified, and even many of his supporters are willing to admit that Lincoln s actions are ethically gray. Eighty years later, another president was faced with a similarly difficult decision when the United States was pulled into war.