Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

The return home for Sgt. Robert Van Heck, who died taking part in the Battle of Tarawa over the Gilbert Islands in November ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are considering a visit to Iwoto Island in April to pay respects to the victims ...