With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...

He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village ... “This story was never told, and the Japanese have never ...

Battaglia recalled some of the Japanese soldiers donned uniforms ... Tony Battaglia served as an Army battlefield medic in the Aleutian Islands in World War II. "We came under fire all the time.