U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...

In May 1943, U.S. forces attacked the Japanese on Attu ... the Allied powers the Alaska Highway could have been absolutely central. The vast majority of military bases are never really used ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ... the U.S. military said it would be too expensive to rebuild. Most were sent to Atka Island, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) away. The last surviving Attu residents that ...

FILE - A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska ... because the U.S. military said it would ...

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain ... were not allowed to return to the island because the U.S. military said it would be too expensive to rebuild.