Descendants of Alaska’s westernmost island want permanent access to their ancestral home. The Native people of Attu have been separated from their homeland since World War II. In the 1700s, the ...

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 rousted him ...

MASSACRE BAY, Attu Island — EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story was written by war correspondent William L. Worden, on his arrival as an eyewitness to the Battle of Attu in Alaska 75 years ago . It was ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The first underwater archaeology investigation in the waters off Attu Island was successfully completed by East Carolina University faculty and alumni from the maritime ...

In this May 26, 1943, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, American soldiers and equipment land on the black volcanic beach during World War II at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, part of the Aleutian ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is reported the bow of the Kotohira Maru was blown off by a 500-pound bomb and the team found evidence of that damage when visiting the site off Alaska’s Attu island. Photo courtesy Dominic W. Bush ...

FILE - In this May 26, 1943 file photo released by the U.S. Navy, American soldiers and equipment land on the black volcanic beach during World War II at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, part of the ...