Ka cika wannan jumla: 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. Haka kuma Jafananci
sun kai hari kan 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.