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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dominic Bush, a PhD candidate and underwater archeologist from East Carolina University, looked at 4x5 negatives taken in 1943 during the WWII battle against the Japanese at Attu Island, which are ...

It is reported the bow of the Kotohira Maru was blown off by a 500-pound bomb and the team found evidence of that damage when visiting the site off Alaska’s Attu island. Photo courtesy Dominic W ...

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 ...