Aleutian Evacuee Ship 856

Evacuees of Alaska, June 1942. The Japanese invasion of North American outposts made necessary the removal of the entire populations of several Alaskan islands. Principal victims were the Aleuts, near relatives to the Eskimo, who had for countless centuries eked out a precarious living by fishing and hunting in the Aleutians and other islands of Bering Sea area.

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