but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...

World War II will forever be remembered as one of the darkest, most brutal moments in our history. Many lessons were learned, but the most important was the fragility of human life.

Twenty-four hours after the initial landing, battle-hardened Marine veterans of the Pacific Fleet and green but tough Army units, under the remote command of Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr., ...

There they dropped 356 tons of explosive—a Southwest Pacific record. That night the invasion fleet moved in. The Japs at Arawe had not been bombed out, were not surprised: at 3:40 a.m. an enemy ...

He describes the many challenges of the Battle of Okinawa as portrayed ... He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek. He separates fact ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

His courage in battle brought him the Congressional ... fighter pilot who shot down nine enemy aircraft in the Pacific during World War II while surviving emergency landings, a runway crash ...

who served during World War II. He was among the dwindling number of veterans who witnessed firsthand the fierce naval battles of the Pacific Theater and the war's final months.