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 ...

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 ...

He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano has long believed Japan should pay ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese ...

The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War ... recover and repatriate 320 Japanese soldiers from Attu. The Associated Press write that, in 1951, the Japanese government offered to pay surviving ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the ... Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen ...