U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...

The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the U.S. Navy at the onset of the Battle ... a last enemy trench, when ...

2018 FAIRBANKS — It was a short battle as far as war is concerned — just 18 days. That’s how long U.S. forces fought Japan for control of Attu, a small island at the end of Alaska’s ...

Many suffered from exposure, frostbite, fever and “trench foot” — a condition ... the 18-day engagement on Attu ranks as the second deadliest battle in the Pacific Theater of World War ...

Researchers exploring the maritime archaeology of Attu, the most western part of the Aleutian Islands, where the Battle of Attu took place in 1943, used Groton-based ThayerMahan's advanced sonar ...