Decades of jungle growth stripped away and multiple runways restored on abandoned airfield in the strategic second island ...

Since World War II the main American airbase in the Pacific was on the island of Guam. This has turned Guam into a vulnerable target for long range Chinese ballistic missiles. Guam is still important, ...

The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

It’s been over 80 years since the United States and Allied forces fought Japan in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Today, communities in the Solomon Islands are still dealing with the unexploded devices ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...

“The weather is absolutely perfect,” an NBC broadcaster announced from an otherwise uninhabited Pacific atoll on ... a diplomatic crisis during World War II, served in the space program ...

On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942 ... U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning point of WWII. 1ST TO FIGHT: PACIFIC WAR MARINES, narrated by actor Jon Seda, documents ...

which will seek to push U.S. forces further out into the Central Pacific Ocean around the Hawaiian Islands, Luck concluded.

"We're losing our WWII veterans daily, and with them, I fear we're also losing the hard-earned lessons they fought valiantly to teach us. Our Pacific War veterans, in particular, remind us that ...