The Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area Visitor Center chronicles the three-month battle dubbed the “Aleutian Campaign.” On display were archival images, personal mementos ...

It's been 80 years since World War II ended and ... was attacked and the nation went to war. At 18, he entered the Army and was shipped off to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska where captured ...

marking the first time that American territory had been occupied since the War of 1812. To Americans from Delaware to Oregon, Japan's arrival in the Aleutian Islands confirmed their worries about ...

In June of 1942, during the Midway Campaign, strong Japanese forces captured Attu and Kiska, at the westernmost end of the Aleutian Islands. But the Allied planners ... successful deceptions of the ...

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories ... historical trauma endured by the Attuan people during and after World War II” and that it was ...

He served on the USS Richman C/9 in World War II between 1943 and 1945 in the Aleutian Islands. Afterward, he studied electrical and electronic engineering and served eight years in the Air Force ...

Before the United States entered World ... Aleutian Islands, contained only six operational airplanes and a small radio station run by the United States Army Signal Corps. Impact of the War ...