Dutch Harbor, Alaska

After some rough five days at sea crossing Pacific Ocean, we are in Alaska.

It met us with a very cold rainy day. The tender boat ride was 30 min and windy cold. To hide from that, we piled into one so called “taxi” and went to a WWII museum.

Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska. It was the location of the Battle of Dutch Harbor in June 1942, and was one of the few sites in the United States to be subjected to aerial bombardment by a foreign power during World War II. It was also one of the few sites, besides the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, in incorporated U.S. territory to be bombed by the Japanese in the war.

From the museum, we took the same taxi and vent back to the tender boat and back on the ship.

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