Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and ...

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 ...

The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a military campaign led by U.S. and Canadian forces on the Islands of Attu and Kiska. It saw the only land battle fought on U.S. soil in World War two. . Apart ...

During WWII, when nearly 90,000 troops were mobilized to the Aleutian Islands, Adak was used by the Army Air Corps for defensive operations against the Japanese during battles at Attu and Kiska ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (AP) — A series of moderate to strong earthquakes that struck Alaska’s western Aleutian Islands and offshore areas Sunday comprised what scientists call a “swarm,&#822… ...

Livingston frequently works with and edits maps. He said he stumbled upon this creek while looking at maps of the Aleutian Islands.

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control of the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu. Their aim was clear: Distract ...