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A fact from Aleutian Islands campaign appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 October 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:
"The Japanese invasions and occupations of Kiska on June 6 and Attu on June 7 shocked the American public, as the continental United States was invaded for the first time since the War of 1812. T"
I'm not from around there, but do you really regard an island well out in the sea as continental?
I appreciate they are on the same plate - I assume they are - but isn't the distinction between the continental USA and the rest that you can in general walk to the continental bits from each other, and you can in general not walk to the others? Deleting "continental" wouldn't do any harm to meaning there, I think. Midgley (talk) 10:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Midgley: A late reply, I was extremely busy this time last year so this slipped past me. "Continental" when referring to US states is generally understood to mean "everything but Hawaii" (although sometimes it is misused to mean "the contiguous 48 states"). Alaska as a whole is part of the continental US, but I agree it's not great phrasing to say the Aleutian Islands are, even thought I think I do understand the intent. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:57, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per Kiska#World_War_II_(1939–1945) there were also Japanese troops on Little Kiska Island, a small island just east of Kiska, as well as on Attu and Kiska. "That night [15 Aug 43] the Imperial Japanese Navy warships, thinking they were engaged by Americans, shelled and attempted to torpedo the island of Little Kiska and the Japanese soldiers waiting to embark.[8]"
The Aleutians may have been invaded twice, but there is also the Niihau incidentwhich would make three. But that begs the question: does a crash landing of a single pilot constitute an invasion?
