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

Although remote, the Aleutian Islands were seen as a foothold to a ... In May 1943, U.S. forces attacked the Japanese on Attu. By the end of the month, the Japanese had retreated from the island ...

Soon, three dozen Attu residents — nearly the whole population of this Aleutian island — were rounded up and held in the village’s small school. A handful of men took to the hills, but eventually, ...

“This story was never told, and the Japanese have never really helped us in that regard.” Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including ...