Navy Petty Officer Walter Stohler spent most of the war in the Aleutians, primarily on Adak. “Yeah, that was a pretty lonely existence up there. Some people kind of went a little nutty up there.

Apr. 7—This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The ...

During World War II, Adak Island in Alaska was used by the U.S. to launch offensives against the Japanese during battles which included the most recent foreign military occupation on American soil.

On Adak Island, bulldozers scraped sand over a tidal swamp and pierced planking was laid down. Four days after an amphibious landing, a 3,000-ft-long runway was operational. Formation of the SeaBees ...

US military looks to reopen Adak naval base in Alaska to counter Pacific ... there were 90,000 troops mobilized to the Aleutian Islands during World War II. U.S. forces on the island were ...

The island best known as a former World War II military base and later naval station is 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage and further west than Hawaii, where polls close an ...

Adak Island has historical significance for its role in World War II. The U.S. built facilities on the island after Japanese forces took islands farther west in the Aleutian chain.

The term “Nip,” Livingston testified, was a derogatory term for Japanese people that came into use during the second World War. It was a derivation of “Nippon,” which is the name for Japan ...

The creek is a mile-long stream on the southeastern side of Little Kiska Island, beside the bigger, more prominent Kiska Island 242 miles west of Adak at the far end of the Aleutian chain.