Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield
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 home ...
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...
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Descendant of last Native leader of Attu Island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Helena Pagano, the great-granddaughter of the last chief of Alaska's Attu Island. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S ...
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including Guam, the Philippines and the nearby island of Kiska, to be captured during the war.