On a calm spring day in 1942, Nick Golodoff was roaming on the beach in front of his home village, Attu, when he heard a loud, unfamiliar noise -- the clatter of machine guns. He looked at a hill ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white photo negative from a beige envelope at the Anchorage Museum archives room. One by one, he held up the images, inspecting ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white photo negative from a beige envelope at the Anchorage Museum archives room. One by one, he held up the images, inspecting ...

In May 1943, US soldiers launched a brutal fight to retake the islands of Attu and Kiska from the Japanese. The remote islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian chain, were important for operations in the ...

WHITTIER, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - An important part of Alaskan history is now back in Alaska. On Tuesday, the Prince William Sound Museum in Whittier accepted a 1939 Japanese machine gun — called a ...

Attu Station is a Census-designated place in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, with a population of 17. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other ...