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 ...

A US military cargo plane returned to a World War II airstrip on ... future of Peleliu island," Peleliu Governor Emais Roberts said in a United States Indo-Pacific Command press release.

“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 ...

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

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto ... alliance as the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II looms. “Japan and the United States, which once ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has attended a joint Japan-US memorial ceremony on the Pacific island of Ioto, also known as Iwojima, to honor those who perished in a fierce battle 80 years ...

But it is not just the Solomon Islands left littered with UXOs; nine Pacific nations deal with this. Palau operations manager for Norwegian People's Aid, Roger Hess, said mishandled munitions can ...