The site of the only ground campaign waged in North America during World War II, the remote Alaskan island of Attu is the western most point of the United States. Its barren landscape is challenging.

A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (BuNo 33969) of Patrol Squadron 61 (VP-61) flies on patrol near a snowy Aleutian Island, in March 1943. This aircraft crashed on 17 January 1944 at Massacre ...

Since the Civil War, the United States had not fought an enemy on American soil nor had an enemy of the U.S. captured or held U.S. soil. This changed in 1941, when the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl ...

In May 1943, US soldiers launched a brutal fight to retake the islands of Attu and Kiska from the Japanese. The remote islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian chain, were important for operations in the ...