Ed Helms

And I think that's also part of what sort of contributes to its being more lost to our cultural memory.

It is.

It is.

And it often feels like one side sort of forces the hand of the other side because it becomes like an existential threat for one party.

I also find it fascinating the kind of – obviously World War II was so literally a world war.

And this is such a great example of something so far from the European theater.

We're way up in Alaska in –

in what feels like the most remote place ever, but the Japanese saw serious strategic possibilities in putting little bases on this archipelago.

And the Americans were just like, no, we have to stomp this out.

Yeah.

And a number of the indigenous population were captured by Japanese as Americans and killed, of course.

They were very much sort of caught in the crossfire, unfortunately.

That's a very interesting question.

I would imagine.

I mean, some of them were brought back to Japan as prisoners of war.

And I would imagine they're just like, what?

What do I have to do with this?

So that was the Battle of Attu on the next dilution island called Kiska.

The radio signals, campfires and bunkers detected by U.S.

reconnaissance indicated as many as 10,000 Japanese troops stationed there to guard their airfield and submarine base.