Just a few days after turning 100, Tony Battaglia shared his recollections as a U.S. Army medic serving in the embattled Aleutian Islands during World War II. "It was a long time ago," the Honesdale ...

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

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

In the remote Aleutian Islands, U.S. and Canadian forces clashed with Japanese troops in the only land battle of WWII fought on American soil. What followed was a brutal and bizarre campaign few ...

Nov. 7—GROTON — A local maritime technology company played a role in pinpointing and taking images of shipwreck sites from World War II near the Aleutian Island of Attu. Researchers exploring the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ On Kiska Island in Alaska's faraway Aleutian chain, anti-aircraft guns still point at the sky. Rusting barrels aim for targets that haven't crossed their sights in almost 70 years.

National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the ...