The story of a lost SBD Dauntless in Vanuatu is not just a technical puzzle about a missing aircraft, it is a human tragedy ...
There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...
A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and now a ...
December 20, 2023: Currently China is increasingly aggressive in the Pacific, claiming ownership of more and more Pacific islands. Many of these islands are far from the Chinese coast. China expects ...
When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.
In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific.
Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...
While fighting on Tinian Pvt. Joseph Ozbourn sacrificed his life to save four fellow Marines.
In 1944, PNG's Manus Island was home to one of the most impressive allied military bases in the Pacific. After signing the ...