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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

  • Golodoff was the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan on Attu Island during World War II.
  • The American effort to reclaim Attu Island in 1943 became known as World War II's "forgotten battle."
  • The Attuans lost their homeland and their language, Sakinam Tunuu, is now all but gone.
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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died. The invasion prompted

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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died

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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But Golodoff's recent death at the age of 84 has reopened a chapter of American history and stirred up memories of a long-forgotten Japanese invasion that prompted the only World War II battle on North American soil.

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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died. The invasion prompted the war’s only battle on North American soil. Golodoff died last month in Anchorage at age 84. His sister, Elizabeth Golodoff Kudrin, the second-to-last last living Attuan, died in February at 82. J…

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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died. The invasion prompted the war’s only battle on North American soil. Golodoff died last month in Anchorage at age 84. His sister, Elizabeth Golodoff Kudrin, the second-to-last last living Attuan, died in February at 82. J…

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Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died. The invasion prompted the war’s only battle on North American soil. Golodoff died last month in Anchorage at age 84. His sister, Elizabeth Golodoff Kudrin, the second-to-last last living Attuan, died in February at 82. J…

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