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You probably mean the Aleutian Islands. After an 8000 man Japanese force occupied the islands, the campaign to expel them lasted over a year. However most of this was preparatory air and naval operations to ensure the land force could safely in such a remote and hostile place. The land combat lasted only 2 weeks; after re-capturing one island they discovered the rest of the Japanese force had silently slipped away.

For the 10,000 casualties this was certainly as important a battle as any other, but on the scale of World War Two this was a very brief and minor operation. For comparison, the bloodiest campaign -- the Eastern Front -- had nearly 30 MILLION casualties and lasted 4 years of almost non-stop combat.

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