The freezing cold, the impenetrable fog, and impossibly strong winds made Attu, one of several islands in the westernmost point of Alaska, the least convenient place for war. And yet, these tiny ...

The Japanese freighter Kotohira Maru (shown here in a sonar image) was one of three wrecks from a World War II battle that archaeologists discovered offshore of Attu Island.

Japanese efforts to recover remains on Attu had long been on hold, largely due to U.S. environmental concerns, Sato said. In 2009, the U.S government required environmental assessment that led to ...

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.

In 2023, Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor of Attu’s 41 residents who were imprisoned in Japan died at 84. He was 3 years old when Japanese forces took the island. Three of his siblings died ...

On Tuesday, the Prince William Sound Museum in Whittier accepted a 1939 Japanese machine gun — called a Nambu — used by Japanese military forces in the World War II Battle of Attu along the ...