That there were and why — from June 3, 1942, to Aug. 15, 1943 — is the story told in “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign,” a changing exhibit on view at the National WWII ...

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

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 ...

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.

American troops, Aleutian Islands, WWII, 1943. Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Tents housing Seabees (members of the U.S. Navy's Construction Battalion), Adak Island during World ...

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 ...

Paul Schaughency — one of the WWII Aleutian Campaign veterans receiving cards and letters through the letter-writing project — poses with his Valentine's Day cards. (Credit Courtesy of Paul ...

The Aleutian Islands, an 1,100 mile archipelago west of Alaska, served as the desolate, barren theater of a northern Pacific conflict between Japan and the United States from 1941 through 1943 ...

WWII veteran Tony Battaglia of Honesdale turned 100 in June. He shares his experiences as a medic in the largely forgotten Aleutian Islands Campaign.