Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield
U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on ...
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 ...
The Japanese never compensated the families for the deaths of prisoners or for the loss of land and damage to Attuan culture ...
Alaska Dispatch News7 天
Descendant of last Native leader of Attu Island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Japan invaded the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and took 41 residents as prisoners of war. Twenty-two of them ...
Archaeology3 年
The Cold Winds of War
A little-known World War II campaign in the Aleutian Islands left ... sits partially submerged in Gertrude Cove on the southern shore of Alaska’s Kiska Island.(Brendan Coyle) The journey to ...
PBS4 年
Race and the Army During World War II
On the Alaska Highway project ... U.S. Army desegregated its units for the first and only time during World War II, at the Battle of the Bulge. Roughly 2,500 African Americans fought alongside ...
Newsday9 天
Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Helena Pagano's great-grandfather ... He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their ...
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Alaska-Class: The Navy's Last Battlecruisers Were Powerhouses
the Alaska and Guam were primarily used for anti-aircraft defense during WWII. The USS Alaska earned three battle stars but was decommissioned and scrapped in 1960. Before Alaska officially became ...