In August 1943, American and Canadian troops landed on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands expecting another brutal fight against ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Kiska Island, in the Aleutians far west of Alaska, is not a ...

An absolutely fascinating but little-known story—described as a “forgotten theater” by the U.S. Navy itself—is the tale of Kiska and Attu, Alaska: two remote Aleutian islands where the Japanese ...

Almost exactly 75 years ago, on August 18, 1943, the USS Abner Read was rocked by a severe explosion. The blast — which most historians say was likely a Japanese mine — tore the 75-foot stern section ...

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 a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan's World War II Navy sinks into the sod. A Type-A midget submarine the shape of a killer whale was one of six the Japanese ...

USS Abner Read (DD 526), bow view. Hunters Point, California, June 13, 1943. US Navy Photo from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command Halfway through his midwatch, 19-year-old ...

They often joked they were training for the battle of Camp Hale.They weren’t.In the summer of 1943, members of the 10th Mountain Division, part of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, left Camp Hale ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.