Primarily an air war, the Aleutian Campaign was the only World War II campaign fought on North American soil. It ended with the reoccupation of Kiska Island on Aug. 15, 1943, according to a history of ...

We explore a forgotten chapter of the Pacific War, where American and Japanese forces clashed not in jungles, but in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. In the Aleutian Islands, brutal weather, isolation ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ On Kiska Island in Alaska's faraway Aleutian chain, anti-aircraft guns still point at the sky. Rusting barrels aim for targets that haven't crossed their sights in almost 70 years.

The sunken remnants of one Japanese and one American ship never met in combat, but they’ve shared the same final resting ...

National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the ...