Telling Stories As Well As Dates

More than just a way to keep track of the date, the annually-produced Aleutian World War II calendar shares the often colorful, poignant or harrowing stories of the Aleutians, both before, during and after the war.

Few other places will you learn such anecdotes as the "Adak National Forest," an ill-fated attempt by the military to raise troop morale in the Aleutians by planting thousands of trees on the naturally tree-less island of Adak; the treatment of Pribilof Islanders by the U.S. government, a virtual enslavement where the government dictated every aspect of islanders' lives, even including who they could marry; or countless stories of wind and waves dashing planes from the sky, sinking ships and at times driving men insane.