In May 1943, US soldiers launched a brutal fight to retake the islands of Attu and Kiska from the Japanese. The remote islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian chain, were important for operations in the ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

What were the Japs doing in their newly won footholds in the western Aleutians, the bleak little islands of Attu and Kiska? If the U.S. Army & Navy knew, they did not say. So the only news was from ...

The enemy inflicted minor damage to the Naval Station at Dutch Harbor and the Army post at Fort Mears, but did not seriously impair their military effectiveness. The enemy has occupied the undefended ...

Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But Golodoff’s recent ...

Since its purchase in 1867, Alaska has been an important Arctic outpost for the US. As the Arctic grows more accessible and competition with Russia and China intensifies, Alaska is only becoming more ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In the end, the American ships inflicted 14 casualties on the Japanese cruiser Nachi, but the Salt Lake City was nearly crippled with the loss of seven sailors ...

The last surviving person from Attu, Gregory Golodoff, passed away earlier this month at the age of 84. (Lisa Hupp/U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service) Gregory Golodoff was sitting in a sod house when the ...

Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white photo negative from a beige envelope at the Anchorage Museum archives room. One by one, he held up the images, inspecting ...