Crystal Dushkin grew up in Atka, but her great-grandmother was from Attu. “A lot of people refer to the Aleutian Campaign as the 'Forgotten War,’” Dushkin said in a 2017 interview with KUCB.

U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands ...

The freezing cold, the impenetrable fog, and impossibly strong winds made Attu, one of several islands in the westernmost point of Alaska, the least convenient place for war. And yet, these tiny ...

Attu is the ancestral home of the Saskinax̂ people. The island was the backdrop for the only World War II battle, also known as the “Forgotten Battle,” fought on North American soil. In May 1943.

Attu sits about 550 miles from Russia’s Kamchatka ... The exact number of people who died on the two vessels is not known — due to Japanese records being destroyed — but estimates put ...

Remnants of Attu's Jap defenders were herded this week into three tiny pockets of bitter-end resistance on the northeast tip of the Aleutian outpost. Because most of them would probably choose ...

The medals would also honor dozens of Saskinax̂ people who lived on Attu, ... In 2023, Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor of Attu’s 41 residents who were imprisoned in Japan died at 84.

Author Ian Hartman believes Black people, ... Things would begin to take a turn the following year, in May 1943, after the U.S. attacked the Japanese on Attu and forced them to retreat.

Just glancing at her, you’d never be able to tell that Elise—the red-haired protagonist in Czech-based indie studio Attu Games’ forthcoming adventure game, Scarlet Deer Inn—is made ...