China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.

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 ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

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 island was used as a launching ... Tinian's strategic value endures. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is focusing on rebuilding and restoring WWII-era airfields in the region as part of its Agile ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...