A dedication ceremony for the new Coast Guard 1600 Memorial at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak is set for 10 a.m. Friday.

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.

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

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 ...

This image shows four gun turrets on the USS Nevada as seen Monday, March 24, by NOAA Ocean Exploration researchers. The ship ...

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 ...

“Nevada returned to combat during the Attu landings in May 1943 ... the July 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini, in the Marshall Islands,” historians say. “That experience left her damaged ...

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 ...