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

Remnants of Attu’s Jap defenders were herded this week into three tiny pockets of bitter-end resistance on the northeast tip of the Aleutian outpost. Because most of them would probably choose death ...

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Nov. 7—GROTON — A local maritime technology company played a role in pinpointing and taking images of shipwreck sites from World War II near the Aleutian Island of Attu. Researchers exploring the ...

Now on Display at the National WWII Museum Through January 11, 2026 NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES, October 10, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “On American Shores: The ...

After the assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans quickly became all too aware of their vulnerability. The Roosevelt administration feared that the Japanese would strike on American ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

GROTON, Conn., Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ThayerMahan, a world leader in providing autonomous maritime surveillance solutions for the defense and offshore wind energy sectors, provided its advanced ...

This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII. The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the U.S.