The Aleutian Islands, 1941/1943 -- 1. Lowering the security curtain -- 2. Confrontation in the Aleutians -- 3. The secret Nisei in the Aleutian Campaign -- 4. Nisei support at Attu and Kiska -- 5. The Tatsuguchi diary -- The Kurile Islands, 1943/1945 -- 6. Looking beyond the Aleutians -- 7. American prisoners in the Kuriles -- 8. Whither the North Pacific weather? -- 9. American deception and Japanese reaction -- 10. The waiting period in the North Pacific -- 11. Soviet presence in the North Pacific -- 12. Lifting the security curtain.