The last surviving person from Attu, Gregory Golodoff, passed away earlier this month at the age of 84. (Lisa Hupp/U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service) Gregory Golodoff was sitting in a sod house when ...

The final stages of the invasion included the Battle of Attu, which claimed the lives of 2,351 Japanese and 549 Allied troops in May 1943.. Bush and his colleagues at ECU — including the project ...

Mason knew the three siblings. Gregory and Liz had little memory of Attu or Japan, and neither liked to talk about it, she said. Nick Golodoff, who was 6 when he was captured, had a childlike ...

Battle of Attu. Attu and the nearby Aleutian island of Kiska were the only parts of North America invaded and occupied by a foreign enemy during World War II, although Japanese warplanes also ...