WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument

The Atka Island B-24D is now part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument managed by the National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The Atka B-24D Liberator bomber, located at its crash site in Atka Island, Alaska, played a highly significant role in World War II. In the Aleutian Campaign against the Imperial Japanese forces from 1942 to 1943--the only battles fought in North America during the war--it was a superb weapon. This aircraft flew in at least 18 combat missions before finally succumbing to bad weather rather than enemy action. Manufactured in 1941, it is now only one of two B-24Ds known to exist in the world.