WW2 Operations be like 

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Losing 300 men while fighting air is certainly an operation of all time.

The most impressive thing is that the Japanese actually abandoned a position because it was undefendable

"Taking fire!" "What do you see?" "The British flag." "Like old times."

I really don't want to imagine the written reports that had to be done, revised, submitted and reviewed.

I can only imagine how awkward the ship back home was.

>Be Japan >Abandon an island >Somehow the battle there still goes on without you >Get a bunch of free kills and kill assists >0 deaths >Somehow you lose ???

Truly one of the 'battles' of all time. The brave Japanese land mine deserves the highest honours for its valiant defence.

The face of shame and disappointment upon the faces of the higher-ups as they read the reports must've been an amazing scenery

You know reading about a battle is going to be fire when one side has (not present) next to it.

Imagine how devastated and pissed the parents were to be told their son was killed in such a stupid incident.

Fun fact: A Canadian soldier said that the American accent was somewhat similar to the Japanese, so they were shot, The Canadian soldier was not subjected to a military trial because most soldiers made this mistake

I was expecting multiple sea mines, then the 'one sea mine' appeared and I just fell to the floor laughing.

You forgot the funniest part: When the yanks and cannucks met each other in the fog and started a gunfight mistaking each other for the Japanese, both sides tried to call in naval artillery support on each other. It was only stopped because someone in the fleet noticed that the fire missions were aimed at the positions of the respective other caller before the real hilarity could ensue.

This is the definition of "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Following the massive success that was 'The Ottomans Win by Doing Absolutely Nothing", we present you the exhilarating sequel, "Japan Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing"!

We came here to fight. The fact that the enemy didn't show up changes nothing. We're going to fight.

Imagine dying in WW2 for friendly fire or a stray mine in bumfuck nowhere.

Virgin Sun Tzu: ,,Never appear weak when strong, and always appear strong when weak" Chad Japanese: ,,Never appear"

Canadians kinda cleared in the friendly fire, though. As a fun side effect, Canada was basically told to stay out of further Pacific operations and focus their efforts entirely on Europe instead.

This is why reconnaissance is so important.

I see a decisive Canadian victory

Tactical Japanese Victory Strategic Allied Victory LOL

If Japanese forces implemented this strategy on every island, they could have inflicted massive casualties. It's actually genius

Y'know, Operation Cottage could make a great horror drama movie. Imagine a group of friends, who got drafted into the war and trained to fight the Japanese in the pacific. Their first battle would be in this operation where they would be split up. When the fighting happens, the main character would spot a few "japanese" soldiers. They fired at him which prompted him to fire again - managing to kill them. When the fighting was done, he would walk up to the bodies and would be in horror that it was his friends, and maybe his other friends that were with him would also get killed during the shootout, leaving him alone.

For those of you who don’t know, the background music is “I hate these classes”, a parody of the Battle Hymn by Japanese military cadets who didn’t wanna attend their classes. But hey, at least these classes taught them how to make Allies lose men while fighting air 💀

imagine being in whatever commanding officers HQ and watching him try to comprehend the mess of this situation

I’d like to believe there was an Austrian-American and a Hungarian-Canadian in the “battle” who was asking themselves “wait, why does this feel familiar?”

Damm i bet the guy that place the mines is wondering of why he gets an XP while doing nothing

Still today in japan we remember the sacrifice of our courageous mine who gave his life for the Emperor. Banzai.

History wants to tell you no japanese were present on the island, when this was clearly the work of their ninjas sabotaging the whole operation!!!

The PR department must have a hard time to explain in public wtf just happened. 😂

Result: "Allied Victory" Sure

"Oh shit we shot the canadians... uhh let's say we thought it was 1812"

When a mine is more effective than a large amount of your forces

Truly one of the most hard fought victories of the Allies. They felt so bad everyone left they had to start simulating the war without them.

My Grandad was there on Kiska island (he was in the FSSF) when the allies "invaded". He never spoke of his time there to me, but from what I found of his veterans association recordings he had stated some pretty important facts that make the "battle" a lot more tragic, and ultimately more human. He said that the fog was so thick on the island, that a guy in the boat he was in didn't even see a crashed planes wing that ended up hitting him in the head (thank god for his helmet) and almost knocking him off the boat. He also stated that when they would find Japanese camps, they found that their coffee was still hot, and there was still food in their ovens and over their fires. It was as if they had just missed them. While it is a rather unfortunate battle on Canada and the USA's history, I will say that it wasn't a direct loss to an enemy force, but to mother nature itself.

Next do the Battle of Karansebes. Hundreds of dead and at least a thousand wounded due to friendly fire caused by a brawl over alcohol.

"History is written by the victors. History is filled with liars." -Captain Price

The song was nice...about Japanese hating Math in Universities so much that they joined the army.

Battle of Krabenses : Ah... I see you are a man of culture as well.

The embodiment of "The friend of my friend is my enemy".

Reminds me of the time soviets performed one of the biggest artillery barrages in history before attac, committing almost a million round to... three empty trenches on the bottom of the hill. Subsequent attack wasn't great either 😅

I wonder how many were killed by mines and traps aside from that sea mine. But fighting against each other because nobody bothered to share the battle plan is really stupid. They even spoke the same language.

Japan: I managed to beat my enemy with only sea mines Turkey: I managed to beat my enemy using nothing but my enemy.

No wonder so many WW2 vets were alchoholics

a costly victory for the allies, but still a victory nonetheless.

truly an essence " i lost the battle but won the war"

haha i remember reading about this the first time and laughed so hard. then i remembered veterans (in general, not of this battle) who have been in friendly fire incidents say that you get really trigger happy when you cant see anyone but expect an ambush or seeing enemies where they aren't.

While it is a rather comical scenario in hindsight, I'd hate to be the family of those lost in that fight... imagine the grief of your loved one dying for nothing

U.S. Soldier: "Ah rootin' hecks-- howdy ya'll garsh darned doin pard, good to see ya golly!?" Canadian1: "Dafuq was that?" Canadian2:**Arms rifle** "Japanese battlecry if ever I heard one."

That K/D ratio is literally infinite!

Total war auto-resolve be like.

Let's be honest this wasn't an "accident" this was Canadians and Americans finding an excuse to restart the War of 1812

Japan casually trolling the allies LMAO-

Taking proportions of the forces involved, considering the zero Japanese forces and zero Japanese victims, Allies attacked the enemy with *infinitely* stronger force and suffered *infinitely* higher loses.

Bloodiest battle on Alaska be like

"Allied victory" 💀

Gotta admire the japanese fighting spirit. Winning while not being there at all.

I'd hardly count this as an allied victory

Plot twist: the US is just testing how capable their neighbor is militarily without offending anyone

> In addition, the Japanese Navy Surgeon General of the Kiska garrison mischievously posted a sign that read ``Plague Patients Camp'' before retreating, saying, ``Regardless of whether the rescue operation is a success or not, we will surprise the Americans.'' Because of this, when Donald Keene, who was serving in the American army, translated it after the American troops landed, panic arose again, and he sent an emergency message to his home country requesting a plague vaccine.[2] At this time, Keene was suspected of being infected with the plague and was sent back to his home country for testing.

The allies after hearing the us and canada explain this: 👁👄👁

It was probably that level of satisfaction when playing BF4 you used land mines and after like 20 mins you get a thriple kill notification when you forgot about its existing 😂

The soldiers that left were dishonourable, meanwhile the sea mine made the emperor proud.

Literally a "Friendly Fire Shall Not Be Tolerated" moment

I was working on a compilation of '20s to '40s pulp style scenarios for a tabletop game, and I decided to go with this being a cover story for the island actually having been host to a dormant hive of body-snatching aliens that were awakened by the Japanese combat engineers digging out tunnels and fortifications. Why else would the notoriously stubborn death-before-dishonor Japanese suddenly flee a heavily fortified island under the cover of heavy fog, somehow without being spotted by the US naval blockade, after fighting to the death for every square inch of the adjacent island, and then suddenly the Allied forces who land on the island also begin killing one another? Even today, nobody lives there, and it's actually illegal to go there without written permission due to being a protected wildlife habitat. What I find particularly interesting is that the landing forces reported it was eerily devoid of life, without even a lot of birds (in reality that's probably because the Japanese hunted everything they could eat, since we attempted to maintain a naval blockade to starve them out). The only living things on that island were a handful of dogs, one of which belonged to the US weather station and was then adopted by the Japanese. Reminds me of the opening of The Thing.

Austrian in Karansebes: "Huh, amateur."

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The commanding officer must have had received a really warm welcome home

Thanks guy, I have been asking for this one for a while.

"We do a little bit of trolling" 😂

It’s like Japan left banana peals everywhere to slip on 🍌

That one sea mine expected them and proceeded to command what little Japanese equipment was there and unintentionally made both sides think the other was the enemy. Truly one of the sea mines and battles of all time

Japan did have casualties, the sea mines.

It’s giving “Austria loses a decisive battle to itself” vibes lmao

Impressive how Canadians fragged 28 while only losing 4. Those boys were determined.

Can you do Omani history be like

Japan: Not present except for the mines😂😂😂😂

the Japanese managed to honedtly win without a single loss

How an irony that the Japanese at the time tried best to hold Allies even using "honourable" tactics, but the most effective kills didn't even cost any sacrifice.

Fog of war (pretty literal in this case if I remember right) is a serious thing, and serious friendly fire incidents still happen to this day as a result of the fog of war

can't believe it that US lose 28 while those Gremlins lose 4

That sea mine be like: TENNO HEIKA BANZAAAAAAIIIII!!!!!

You know is gonna be a good one when Canadians or Australians are involved.

imagine your grandfather was one of the guys that died in friendly fire there 💀

I always wondered why the Operation on Aleutinians Island wasnt very much talked about (considering it was the only piece of American Territory ever occupied by japan). Now i know why

Average anglo north American antics

Japan sometimes was based in ww2 (when refused to accept declaration of war from Poland or not being present at battle and making enemy to have casualties), but most of the time was just earning war tribunal accusations for no reason.

"Allied Victory"

That sea mine was the MVP of the battle

God Bless Mother Nature for inventing fog

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

"Allied victory" 😂

28 captured by whom exactly???

We united so hard on that one. 😂

At first you hear of total victories like Philippine sea and Midway, then stupid stuff like this

Japan: When you manage to inflict more casualties disconnecting from the match

If anyone wanted some context for this embarrassment shortly before this operation was a very bloody and gruesome battle to take a different Aleutian Island off the coast of Alaska. The Japanese were so determined to keep it they fought down to the last man until they were completely routed, Fighting in caves using guns, hand to hand combat, and traps, the soldiers were all terrified they'd have another fight like that. They all went into this operation terrified. It was a wake up call for the US military that fighting in the Pacific would be nothing like Europe.

After going through a ww2 kick, I'm seeing that friendly fire was kind of a big issue in battle