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, ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 13—Dominic Bush studies WWII battle at Attu Island Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white ...
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 ...
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 ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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.
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 ...
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 ...