Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese ...

In September 1944, during the island-hopping campaign across the Pacific, U.S. Marines launched an invasion of the small ...

He disappeared July 9, 1943, during the battle of Enogai on the island of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands.

After World War II, the U.S. faced a monumental logistics problem across the entire Pacific: getting rid of nine million tons of surplus military material, valued at nearly $4 billion (north of $73 ...

In 1942, James G. Thompson, of Wichita, Kansas, addressed a letter to the editor of The Pittsburgh Courier with a simple question. While working in the cafeteria of a local defense plant, Thompson, ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for ...

Flights to Australia and New Zealand don’t necessarily need to be 14-hour marathons. A flight stopover at these tropical Pacific islands helps break up the long journey south. Many travelers bound for ...

The islands off Iran have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites on Kharg Island.

The strategic geography of the Western Pacific is returning to the center of U.S. national security thinking. The recent National Security and National Defense Strategies both reaffirmed defense of ...

U.S. Marines observed Japan’s only amphibious unit carry out a beach-landing drill this week as part of joint exercise, Iron ...