The Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between August 7th of 1942 and February 9th of 1943 on and around ...

invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...

The remains were discovered in March on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa ... More than 1,000 US troops died in fighting on the remote island. The non-profit group that uncovered the remains, History ...

UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new ...

“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 ...

Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The White House has posthumously honored the service and sacrifice of members of Hui Panalāʻau and renamed the Pacific Remote ...

About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ... Of the 14 island nations in the Pacific, 11, including the Solomon Islands, do not have their ...

The Solomon Islands, a WW2 battleground in the South Pacific, are littered with thousands of unexploded bombs. The Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) described the explosion as a "tragic accident".