Battle of Attu

a group of people in a field holding traditional grass baskets

Attu descendants visit their ancestral home for the first time

In 1942, there were 44 people living on Attu Island, nearly all Alaska Natives. They were taken as captives to Japan, where half of them died. And after the war, the federal government forbade them from returning.

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Seventy-five years after the Battle of Attu, veterans reflect on the cost of reclaiming US soil