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 ...

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region ... Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the ...

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 was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, lasting for 36 days ... which is made up of around 30 subtropical ...

“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 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto ... alliance as the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II looms. “Japan and the United States, which once ...

Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong; British forces surrender. In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila; American and Filipino troops withdraw ...

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 ...

Once the Imperial Japanese Navy’s largest base in the central Pacific, the Chuuk islands are now an untouched wonderland ripe for discovery Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...