Japanese forces captured Attu, a small island at the western tip of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. They destroyed the homes and ...

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 ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...

The Japanese invaded this Alaskan island during WWII and sent the residents to Japan. Half died there; none ever returned home. June 7, 1942, was a Sunday, and 6-year-old Nick Golodoff, like most ...

Golodoff was the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured remote Attu Island during World War II. He was 3 when the island was taken. He died Nov. 17 in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The great-granddaughter of the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the ... did to the residents of Attu Island during World War II. Japan invaded the most ...

Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering ... war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents ...