World War 2 Alaska Timeline Project

  • Panama-Hawaii-Alaska defense triangle established

  • Construction of Ladd field

  • United States enter WWII

  • Construction begins on Whittier railroad tunnels

  • Lend-Lease Act approved by congress

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • Alaskan Territorial Guard established

  • Japanese bomb Dutch Harbor

  • Japanese land on Kiska

  • Japanese land on Attu

  • Aleut evacuation of the Pribilofs

  • Japanese bomb Fort Mear

  • ALSIB established

  • Alaska Highway completed

  • U.S. forces land on Attu

  • First train arrives in Whittier

  • U.S. and Canadian forces land on Kiska

  • Sinking of Japanese submarine I-180 off of Kodiak Island

  • End of WW II

  • Alaska Highway begins

  • Alaska Statehood

  • Sitka Naval Air Station was formally commissioned