A new U.S. military manual defines the survival and tactical needs of fighting a war in the Arctic and extreme cold weather ...

The creek is a mile-long stream on the southeastern side of Little Kiska Island, beside the bigger, more prominent Kiska Island 242 miles west of Adak at the far end of the Aleutian chain.

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 ...

Japanese aircraft targeted the Nevada as she ... “Nevada returned to combat during the Attu landings in May 1943.” Once the war ended, the ragged ship “was assigned to serve as a target ...

Several days later Japanese forces invaded Kiska and Attu islands, the westernmost islands in the Aleutians (670 and 850 miles from Unalaska, respectively), in an attempt to inflict a ...

The relatives of Japanese soldiers who died fighting U.S. forces on Attu Island, a fierce battlefield of World War II, have voiced expectations for the recovery of their remains. Their expectation ...