Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1943, US soldiers launched a brutal fight to retake the islands of Attu and Kiska from the Japanese. The remote islands, ...

On this day in 1943, units of the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Division launched twin simultaneous amphibious landings on Attu, an island on the extreme western end of Alaska’s Aleutian chain in the North ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: By mid-1943, the fate of Japan’s Alaskan outpost was sealed. As the blockade and bombardment further intensified, the stage was set for Allied amphibious landings that ...

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 ...

Ask Americans to name World War II battles in the Pacific and you will likely to hear places such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. You aren’t likely to hear anyone mention ...

Gary Black, gblack@newsminer.com May 20, 2018 May 20, 2018 Updated Jul 3, 2018 FAIRBANKS — It was a short battle as far as war is concerned — just 18 days. That’s how long U.S. forces fought Japan for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

The williwaw gusts swirled thick fog among transport ships off Attu Island, and the waiting infantrymen nervously mulled the name of their landing site: Massacre Bay. Native Unangans were slaughtered ...