This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the U ...

The Japanese invaded this Alaskan island during WWII and sent the residents to Japan. Half died there; none ever returned home. June 7, 1942, was a Sunday, and 6-year-old Nick Golodoff, like most ...

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain ... the significant historical trauma endured by the Attuan people during and after World War II” and that it was aware of Atux Forever’s ...

Golodoff was the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured remote Attu Island during World War II. He was 3 when the island was taken. He died Nov. 17 in ...

During World War II, the U.S. got a taste of what a war in the Arctic could look like. In the Battle of Attu, the Japanese army took the Aleutian island of Attu in Alaska and the 7th Infantry ...