Those months included a “hunger winter” when famine killed more than 20,000 Dutch people as a railroad strike was compounded by severe weather to prevent the movement of food and fuel.

Her assailants were bald eagles, Haliaeetus leucocephalus—or Dutch Harbor pigeons ... atop telephone poles and stoplights. They accost people who wander too close during nesting season, sending ...

Regional naval officers directed Japanese forces to bomb an American military base at Dutch Harbor, killing more than 100 Americans. Within a week, Japan's Northern Area Fleet pushed forward and ...