Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft ...

The remains were discovered in March on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, which was the scene of a three-day battle with the Japanese in November 1943. US defence department officials plan to transport ...

The last time anyone saw these military aircraft, US forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II. “Operation Hailstone” in February 1944 was a decisive ...

The Indo-Pacific area has long been a combined theater of joint operations, necessitating cooperation across the United States' military services. During WWII, the U.S. Army acted as the heart of ...

In fact, U.S. diplomacy has returned to the islands, but with a different threat in mind: the increasing Chinese presence in the Pacific region ... Japan, US, other WWII allies don't offer ...

Until now. Late last month a research vessel called the R/V Petrel found the World War II aircraft carrier’s wreckage more than 17,000 feet below the surface of the South Pacific, near the ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go down in a blaze of glory in a live-fire exercise off the western coast of ...

part of the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. “Rehabilitation of World War II-era airfields has provided Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) a rapidly executable avenue to enhance ...

August 15 marks 75 years since World War II ended in the Pacific with Japan's surrender to a group of countries that included Australia and its new superpower ally, the United States. As we get ...

The last time anyone saw these military aircraft, US forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II. “Operation Hailstone” in February 1944 was a decisive ...