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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and offensive World War II-era place names with ones that honor the native ...

For almost 75 years, the rear section, or stern, of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn ...

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 ...

On a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan's World War II Navy sinks into the sod. A Type-A midget submarine the shape of a killer whale was one of six the Japanese ...

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 ...