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 ...
A groundbreaking ceremony held on a remote Pacific island marked the start of a project—spearheaded by a Chinese state-owned company—to revive a World War II-era airfield. The project, launched on the ...
Scientists and explorers have found the severed bow of a damaged World War II warship. A team aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus found the USS New Orleans 675 meters deep in the Solomon Islands' ...
US Navy Corpsman John Bailey, alongside thousands of the US’s most elite Marines, braced for yet another landing in the ...
As Japanese guns on Peleliu blazed, 19-year-old Matt Gutman steered his boatload of Marines toward the beach and hoped he wouldn’t get hit. It was the first time he landed troops on an enemy-held ...
Japan will begin building bomb shelters next year on its remote islands closest to Taiwan, amid fears that its far western territory could become a legitimate target for Chinese missiles if China and ...
On the morning of August 16th, 1942, the U.S. Navy airship L-8 departed Treasure Island to patrol the San Francisco coast for Japanese submarines. With two trained pilots aboard, it should have been a ...
The last survivor of the HMAS Canberra is farewelled on Victory in the Pacific Day, which marks the end of hostilities in the Pacific region during World War II.