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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 defense infrastructure.

“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 ...

Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to ...

a group of 135 mainly Native Hawaiian men who were sent by the U.S. government to explore five uninhabited Pacific islands in the years leading up to World War II. “These young men recorded ...

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

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be left over from World War II on a small island south of Okinawa’s capital city. The shell is one of ...