Description
In August 1943, American and Canadian troops landed on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands expecting another brutal fight against Japanese defenders. After the costly battle on Attu, Allied commanders had reason to believe Kiska would be heavily defended. Instead, the Japanese garrison had already evacuated before the invasion began.
Operation Cottage became one of World War II’s strangest Allied operations: a fogbound landing shaped by mines, booby traps, accidents, confusion, and fear on an island where the enemy was no longer present. This documentary follows how intelligence gaps, harsh weather, difficult terrain, and battlefield assumptions turned an empty island into a deadly operation — and why Kiska remains one of the war’s most unusual invasion stories.