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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 ...

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 sunken remnants of one Japanese and one American ship never met in combat, but they’ve shared the same final resting ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES, October 10, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign” is now on display at The National WWII ...

Dominic Bush spent four years planning to look for sunken World War II ships in the waters around Attu at the farthest edge of the Aleutian Islands. This summer, he and a crew of 13 other researchers ...

Many Americans, even today, don’t realize the extent to which Alaska was involved in World War II, and that two islands in the Aleutians were invaded and occupied by Japanese forces. Author Bil Paul, ...

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 ...

Underwater archaeologists have located the wrecks of three military ships involved in Japan's invasion of Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands in World War II — an almost-overlooked conflict sometimes ...