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 ...

Below its emerald waters, these tropical islands in the heart of the Pacific conceal the world's biggest underwater graveyard.

In 2021, seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo, Japan, caused two dozen "ghost ships" to rise from the ...

It’s been over 80 years since the United States and Allied forces fought Japan in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Today, communities in the Solomon Islands are still dealing with the unexploded devices ...

U.S. Air Force engineers, U.S. Navy Seabees, and U.S. Marine engineer teams have reclaimed a historic World War II airfield from jungle growth in the Western Pacific for use for operations for ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto, better known to the world as Iwo Jima, to ...

This story is an expanded version of a page that appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. “The weather is absolutely perfect,” an NBC broadcaster announced from an ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 ...

On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning ...

He will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island since April 2013, when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ...

More than 80 years after the Battle of Guadalcanal, communities today are still grappling with the unexploded devices left ...