Private Richard Gordon Wright, a U.S. Marine killed in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II, has been identified after 80 ...

USS Alaska, the mighty American cruiser designed to hunt down German commerce raiders, surged through the frigid Atlantic to ...

The Aleut Corp., Adak’s regional Native corporation, signed an agreement in May 2025 to lease 3,500 acres to Pacific H2, an ...

A remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor ...

Alaska Public Media reports that archaeologists from the Alutiiq Museum have discovered several new Native American village sites on Shuyak Island, which is located in the Kodiak Archipelago. The ...

Minnesota World War II veteran Les Schrenk recently got a chance to visit the former POW camp in Poland where he was held ...

He was like any other soldier serving in the Aleutians during World War II. Except he was 50 years old. And he was a famous author. And he was a member of the Communist Party.

Environment Nation Nation & World Northwest Traffic Lab Alaska’s ‘Nazi Creek,’ a legacy of World War II, is set for a name change April 10, 2025 at 6:01 am By Zachariah Hughes ...

Alaska News Alaska’s ‘Nazi Creek,’ a legacy of World War II, is set for a name change By Zachariah Hughes Published: April 7, 2025 Little Kiska Island (Tony DeGange/US Geological Survey, 2010) ...

Per the "Dictionary of Alaska Place Names," during World War II the U.S. Army was putting tactical names on geographic features throughout the Aleutians.

The stories she heard as a young girl from her own elder relatives inspired Holly Miowak Guise to research and document the experience of Alaska Native veterans of World War II. Her work is compiled ...