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 ...

Much of Alaska including the Aleutian Islands is on the Ring of Fire, a seismically and volcanically active zone that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. However, these quakes were not related to ...

The Discovery+ doc explores Alaska's rugged Aleutian Island chain with filmmaker Ian Shive and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife research team. “It was a trip of a lifetime,” says the Los Angeles-based ...

Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong ... pilots for the rest of the war.) Japan invades Aleutian Islands. August: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands: After ...

On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake centered near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands triggered ... damage and number of deaths on inhabited Pacific islands. In Hawaii the waves reached about ...

The uptick in Russian and Chinese activity near Alaska — home to America’s largest fleet of advanced fighter jets and a cornerstone of its missile defense architecture –is fueling calls to reestablish ...