Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tsibirin Adak ya kasance gidan mutanen Aleut tun zamanin da. Masu bincike na Rasha a ƙarni na 18 sun ziyarci tsibirin amma ba su yi zama na dindindin ba. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Rundunar Sojojin Japan ta mallaki biyu daga cikin tsibirin Aleutian da ke yamma <unk> Attu da Kiska <unk> a cikin yankin da aka haɗa da Alaska, abokin gaba na farko na waje da ya mamaye ƙasar Amurka tun lokacin yakin 1812. Jafananci ma sun kai hari
sansanin Amurka a Dutch Harbor ta hanyar iska. Yaƙin Jafananci ya yi daidai da sanannen yaƙin Midway. A cikin martani, sojojin Amurka sun fara yakin neman fitar da Jafananci. Tunda mafi kusa da kasancewar sojojin Amurka yana cikin Cold Bay, Alaska, Amurka ta fara gina sansanoni a yammacin tsibirin Aleutian daga inda za a fara ayyukan yaki da Jafananci. An zaɓi Adak Island a matsayin wurin filin jirgin sama, kuma ayyukan jirgin ya fara a watan Satumba na 1942. A ranar 11 ga Mayu, 1943, kwana hudu bayan da aka jinkirta ranar mamayewa ta farko saboda mummunan yanayi, sojojin Amurka sun sauka a tsibirin Attu kuma suka ci nasara da sojojin Japan a can, a farashin rayukan Jafananci 2,300 da Amurkawa 550. Da yake tsammanin irin wannan yaƙin don tsibirin Kiska, sojojin Amurka da na Allied sun sauka a can a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1943, sun gano cewa sojojin ruwan Japan sun kwashe masu zama a ɓoye tun daga ƙarshen Mayu, 1943. Duk da haka, sama da sojoji 313 na Allied sun mutu daga wuta, ma'adanai, da sauran na'urorin da ba na mutum ba a lokacin ayyukan Allied don dawo da Kiska. A shekara ta 1953, an binne gawawwakin mutanen Japan 236 da aka binne a makabartar Adak a makabartar Chidorigafuchi ta Japan.