Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan an ba da umarnin, an ba da jirgin zuwa Sashin Jirgin Sama na Hudu na Jirgin Sama na 1, tare da, a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Rear Admiral Kakuji Kakuta. An umurce shi da ya goyi bayan Operation AL, wani hari da aka shirya don kama wasu tsibirin Aleutian don bayar da gargadi na gaba idan akwai wani harin Amurka daga Aleutians zuwa tsibirin Kurile yayin da babban ɓangaren rundunar Amurka ke kare Midway. "Jun'yō" ya ɗauki 18 A6M2 Zeros da 18 D3As don wannan aikin. Da asuba a ranar 3 ga Yuni, ta kaddamar da Zero 9 da dozin D3A don kai hari ga Dutch Harbor
a tsibirin Unalaska. Dole ne su koma baya saboda mummunan yanayi, kodayake jirgin sama na PBY Catalina na Amurka ya harbe shi da Zero. An kaddamar da hare-haren iska na biyu a rana don kai farmaki kan rukuni na masu hallaka da jiragen sama suka gano daga hare-haren farko, amma sun kasa gano manufofin. An sake kaddamar da wani harin iska a rana mai zuwa ta hanyar masu sufuri guda biyu wadanda suka hada da 15 Zeros, 11 D3As, da 6 B5Ns kuma sun yi nasarar kai hare-haren Dutch Harbor. Kamar yadda jirgin sama daga "Jun'yō" aka regrouping bayan harin, da suka kasance sunã kai hari da 8 Curtiss P-40 mayakan cewa harbe saukar da 2 Zeros da biyu na D3As yayin da rasa 2 na nasu. Wani D3A ya ɓace kuma ya kasa dawowa zuwa mai ɗaukar kaya. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan da aka kaddamar da jirgin sama, Amurkawa sun kai hari ga masu sufuri, amma sun kasa haifar da wani lahani. Jirgin saman Martin B-26 Marauder da PBY an harbe su ta hanyar Zeros, kuma jirgin Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ya harbe shi ta hanyar flak yayin harin.