After the assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans quickly became all too aware of their vulnerability. The Roosevelt administration feared that the Japanese would strike on American ...

When Japanese forces stormed Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in 1942, America faced a shocking truth enemy troops had set foot on U ...

The only two Japanese ships believed to have been sunk directly off the U.S. coastline in World War II have been located by researchers scouring the seafloor off Alaska, East Carolina University in ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

Now on Display at the National WWII Museum Through January 11, 2026 NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES, October 10, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “On American Shores: The ...

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...

It is reported the bow of the Kotohira Maru was blown off by a 500-pound bomb and the team found evidence of that damage when visiting the site off Alaska’s Attu island. Photo courtesy Dominic W. Bush ...