Almost exactly 75 years ago, on August 18, 1943, the USS Abner Read was rocked by a severe explosion. The blast — which most historians say was likely a Japanese mine — tore the 75-foot stern section ...

In this July 18, 2018 photo provided by Project Recover, a Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) glides away from a research boat before diving beneath the surface where it spent the next six ...

This July, 2018 photo from video provided by Project Recover shows a gun shows a portion of the coral-encrusted stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read in the waters off Kiska Island, Alaska. The Abner ...

Daryl Weathers points to the spot where USS Abner Read broke apart after hitting a sea mine left by the Japanese after they abandoned Kiska Island in Alaska's Aleutian Islands in 1943. Weathers talked ...

A little-known World War II campaign in the Aleutian Islands left behind an undisturbed battlefield strewn with weapons and materiel The wreck of Borneo Maru, a Japanese cargo ship that ran aground ...

The roughly half-mile-long Nazi Creek on Little Kiska Island flows southeast into the Pacific Ocean. Historian Michael Livingston has applied to rename the creek. (From USGS) Michael Livingston is ...

They often joked they were training for the battle of Camp Hale.They weren’t.In the summer of 1943, members of the 10th Mountain Division, part of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, left Camp Hale ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ On Kiska Island in Alaska's faraway Aleutian chain, anti-aircraft guns still point at the sky. Rusting barrels aim for targets that haven't crossed their sights in almost 70 years.

FAIRBANKS - On June 7, 1942, a Japanese infantry battalion landed on Attu Island at the western end of the Aleutians, took the small population hostage and claimed the island as their own. A day ...

In this May 26, 1943, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, American soldiers and equipment land on the black volcanic beach during World War II at Massacre Bay on Attu Island, part of the Aleutian ...

A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians. Nazi Creek was the ...