Pvt. Joe Martinez's actions came during the only World War II battle American and Japanese troops fought in the ice and snow.
A research expedition to Attu Island, the westernmost U.S. territory, documents the vanishing history of the Aleut people and the island's wartime occupation by Japan. The moment in July when Wolfgang ...
Oceanborne debris has washed ashore on Hawaii coasts at higher rates than usual this year, and cleanup teams are expecting more of the same through 2025.
The Japanese freighter Kotohira Maru (shown here in a sonar image) was one of three wrecks from a World War II battle that archaeologists discovered offshore of Attu Island. The moment in July ...
CEBU, Philippines – Protected area rangers from the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary (OIWS) in Cebu recovered the remains of a 110-kilogram green sea turtle on Tuesday, December 17, along the ...
The Japanese never compensated the families for the deaths of prisoners or for the loss of land and damage to Attuan culture ...
Pagano says the 1951 treaty would not bar additional restitution. The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. In August, Pagano made her first trip to Attu, on a ship operated ...
A remnant of World War II remains on Attu Island, Alaska, on Aug. 22, 2017. (Lisa Hupp/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File) The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Others were held in internment camps by the US government following Pearl Harbor. Eight decades later, a descendant of the last Native leader of Attu Island is demanding reparations from Japan, as ...
The island is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. In August, Pagano made her first trip to Attu, on a ship operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the refuge.