Kammala wannan magana: Lokacin da Navy ta koyi cewa Jafananci sun shirya shirin shiga cikin ruwa na Alaska a matsayin wani ɓangare na su
Tsakanin aikin, Admiral Nimitz ya ba da jiragen ruwa guda biyar, masu hallaka goma sha huɗu, jiragen ruwa shida, da kuma masu taimakawa masu dacewa don magance sojojin da ke adawa a Arewa. Shekaru biyar kafin barkewar yakin yankin ya kasance ba shi da kariya. Amma a watan Satumba na 1941, Sitka, Kodiak, da Dutch Harbor sun yi aiki a matsayin tashar jiragen sama na Naval, kuma duka Kodiak da Sitka sun iya aiki da jiragen ruwa. A tsakiyar 1940, Sojojin sun kafa Dokar Tsaro ta Alaska, tare da Brigadier Janar Simon Bolivar Buckner a cikin umurnin; kuma Navy ta kirkiro wani yanki na Alaska a karkashin 13th Naval District, ta nada Kyaftin Ralph C. Parker zuwa umurnin.