Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A John Frum Movement cross in Tanna in 1967. (Tim Ross) In the remote South Pacific, on the rugged island of Tanna in what is now ...

A bell rings. Men carrying thick bamboo poles as "rifles" with U.S.A. painted on their bare chests begin to march, in lockstep, toward a clearing in the forest. The man-made clearing is a rough ...

But the venerated Americans never came back, except as a dribble of tourists and veterans eager to revisit the faraway islands where they went to war in their youth. And although almost all the cargo ...