An absolutely fascinating but little-known story—described as a “forgotten theater” by the U.S. Navy itself—is the tale of Kiska and Attu, Alaska: two remote Aleutian islands where the Japanese ...

On Kiska Island, anti-aircraft guns still point at the sky. Rusting barrels aim for targets that have not crossed their sights in almost 70 years. Gray lakes fill craters blown into the tundra by ...

Almost exactly 75 years ago, on August 18, 1943, the USS Abner Read was rocked by a severe explosion. The blast — which most historians say was likely a Japanese mine — tore the 75-foot stern section ...

On Kiska Island, anti-aircraft guns still point at the sky. Rusting barrels aim for targets that have not crossed their sights in almost 70 years. Gray lakes fill craters blown into the tundra by ...

Seventy-one American servicemen disappeared into Alaska’s frigid waters when the USS Abner Read hit a Japanese mine on August 18, 1943. For nearly 75 years, their final resting place remained unknown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1943, US soldiers launched a brutal fight to retake the islands of Attu and Kiska from the Japanese. The remote islands, ...

On a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan's World War II Navy sinks into the sod. A Type-A midget submarine the shape of a killer whale was one of six the Japanese ...

In this July 18, 2018 photo provided by Project Recover, a Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) glides away from a research boat before diving beneath the surface where it spent the next six ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily contested during World War II. In an attack possibly timed to draw away U.S.