Talk:Battle of Dutch Harbor

Diversion
Recent historians, such as Tully and Parshall in Shattered Sword, with better access to Japanese records, have said that the Japanese Aleutian Islands operation was not meant as a diversion for the rest of the Combined Fleet approaching Midway. Instead, they argue, the goal of the plan to attack and occupy the Aleutians was, as with Midway, to extend Japan's defensive perimeter outward to give greater protection to the home islands. If it served as a diversion, that was only a secondary objective. Cla68 (talk) 08:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, I know that Fuchida says that it was meant as a diversion. Tully and Parshall, however, say that Japanese records don't support his claim. Cla68 (talk) 08:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

POW/MIA
"As a result of the enemy actions the Eleventh Air force lost 4 B-17s, 2 Martin B-26 Marauders, 2 P-40s, the Fleet Air wing suffered the most with 6 PBY Catalinas destroyed and 23 killed. 3 POW, 10 MIA and 2 wounded.[9]"

Since this battle was an aerial attack, how is it possible that any US troops were taken prisoner? MIA is confusing too -- it's a tiny isolated island, where are they going to disappear to? -- though I suppose it's possible they died but their bodies weren't found.

The reference is a Google books link and that only shows you part of the text so it's difficult to get the context for these numbers. Is it possible that they're the casualty numbers for the 11th Air force for the entire war? There's no indication other than this sentence that there were B-17s on the island during the battle, for instance. --Jfruh (talk) 00:52, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

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