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 ...
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 ...
It was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, lasting for 36 days ... which is made up of around 30 subtropical ...
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 ...
More than 80 years after the Battle of Guadalcanal, communities today are still grappling with the unexploded devices left ...
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto, better known to the world as Iwo Jima, to ...
“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 ...
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 ...
He will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island since April 2013, when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ...