American forces reclaimed remote Attu Island on May 30, 1943, after a 19-day campaign that is known as World War II’s forgotten battle. Much of the fighting was hand-to-hand, waged in dense fog ...

Alaska National Guard Maj. Marvin "Muktuk" Marston decided that leaving Alaskans without protection was just unsat. He set out to enlist and organize a force of Alaskans to defend the territory's ...

How a Japanese medic and American soldier became linked by WWII's Battle of Attu 14:02. Most of us learned in history class about the critical World War II chapters in the fight against Japan ...

Fort Greely and Delta Junction celebrated the Alaska Highway’s 75th anniversary Saturday – and one of the soldiers who helped build it. Gov. Bill Walker and other state and local leaders ...

On June 6, 1942, just seven months after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that pulled the United States into World War II, almost 3,000 Japanese troops landed on Kiska, an island in Alaska's ...

In World War II, Japan invaded Alaska and took the civilians of Attu village to POW camps. Now the three survivors are meeting descendants in Anchorage to record the fate of their ''lost village.'' ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— William Roy Dover’s memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it’s been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first sergeant ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — William Roy Dover’s memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it’s been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first ...