The Snapshots in Time Collection
Close-Up of Battle Wreckage and Debris, Aleutian Islands, 1943
This close view of splintered wood and twisted metal captures the aftermath of combat in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Such debris fields, littered across the battlefield landscape, offered stark visual evidence of the destruction wrought during the fighting to reclaim Attu and secure Kiska from Japanese occupation. Project: 218526