It was site of the only land battle fought on U.S. soil during World War II. And in proportional terms, it was one of the ...

The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near Attu Station, Alaska on Monday. The quake hit at 9:50 PM local time at a depth of 10 kilometers. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 13—Dominic Bush studies WWII battle at Attu Island Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white ...

Dominic Bush slid on blue surgical gloves and pulled out a black-and-white photo negative from a beige envelope at the Anchorage Museum archives room. One by one, he held up the images, inspecting ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A memorial to honor Attu Island villagers who were killed or captured by Japanese forces during World War II has been placed at the long-abandoned ...

The quake reportedly occurred 33 miles southwest of Shemya Island and 52 miles southeast of Attu Station, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. USGS A massive 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook ...

Frohlich, Bruno. 2002. "Aleutian Settlement Distribution on Adak, Kagalaska, Buldir and Attu Islands. Aleutian Islands, Alaska." In To the Aleutians and Beyond ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s ...