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 ...

In the face of Japanese occupation, the construction of a land route to supply military bases in Alaska now appeared to be crucial to most Americans. The Changing Tide of 1943 By the time the Army ...

The threat of a German fleet in the Atlantic, the possibility of Japanese invasion of Alaska and British Columbia demanded second thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic ...

Japanese landed on Attu on June 7, 1942, killing the radio operator. The residents were kept in their homes for three months, then taken to Japan. U.S. forces waged a bloody campaign amid ...