On the Alaska Highway project ... becoming one of the first recognized heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another of the military's barriers. During World War II, the ...
Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was ...
A World War II-era plane crashed along a river near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said in an online dispatch a Douglas C-54, a four-engine propeller transport ...
It's been 80 years since World War II ended and the number of veterans ... he entered the Army and was shipped off to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska where captured Japanese soldiers were being ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...