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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — William Roy Dover’s memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it’s been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first sergeant rousted him ...

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 ...

Japanese soldiers invaded Attu Island June 7, 1942, claiming it in hopes of setting up a base of operations during World War II. U.S. Soldiers landed on Attu May 11, 1943, for what they thought would ...

American forces reclaimed remote Attu Island on May 30, 1943, after a 19-day campaign that is known as World War II's forgotten battle. Much of the fighting was hand-to-hand, waged in dense fog and ...

Descendants of Alaska’s westernmost island want permanent access to their ancestral home. The Native people of Attu have been separated from their homeland since World War II. In the 1700s, the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...

MASSACRE BAY, Attu Island – EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story was written by war correspondent William L. Worden, on his arrival as an eyewitness to the Battle of Attu in Alaska 75 years ago . It was ...

TAVARES — The blurb on the movie poster says: “On June 7, 1942 Japan invaded Alaska. Sixty years later, one man has come to take it back.” That man is 83-year-old Lake County veteran Bill Jones, the ...

The site of the only ground campaign waged in North America during World War II, the remote Alaskan island of Attu is the western most point of the United States. Its barren landscape is challenging.

Seven decades have passed since U.S. soldiers recaptured Attu Island from Japanese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Once they recovered the most remote island in the Aleutian ...