“It’s like a living museum to go there and to see how things were,” said Karen Abel, granddaughter of a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran of World War II’s Aleutian campaign. “And to see the guns. You get to touch them and feel them and see where they were placed in action. It’s not in a museum. It’s not behind glass. It was exactly as it was then.”
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Researchers Uncover Long-Lost Tunnel Used By Jews To Escape Extermination Pits
They have provided physical evidence to a famous story of heroism during the Holocaust — known before only through the testimony of the 11 Jews who escaped a Lithuanian massacre site.
Japanese kayakers paddle Aleutian Chain without GPS, rescue radio
Cold Bay to Unalaska is nearly 200 miles. By plane, it takes about an hour. By kayak, it’s nearly a month.
Obama Names LGBT Landmark As National Monument
The Stonewall National Monument in New York City will be the first addition to the National Park System specifically highlighting the history of the LGBT community.
94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Guard Found Guilty Of Complicity In 170,000 Murders
Reinhold Hanning, a former death camp guard, told victims in the courtroom, “I am sorry.” He said he has been silent all his life about his role as part of the Nazi killing machine from 1942 to 1944.
Evidence of ancient trade with Asia uncovered in Northwest Alaska
There’s new evidence that metal goods from central Asia made their way to Alaska long before contact with Europeans.