U.S. Naval Occupation of Kiska and Surrender of Japanese Forces at Hokkaido. Captain James Simpson MacKinnon, Chief of Staff, 17th Naval District, presented these photographs of the American occupation of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands, 1943, and the surrender of North Pacific Japanese forces at Hokkaido. The views include remains of Japanese installations, construction and occupation of the U.S. Naval Station at Kiska and the Japanese surrender at Hokkaido to Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher, U.S.N.