US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...
June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese planes that some American ... charge of the Pacific War takes ...
On June 15, 1944, American forces invaded ... with Allied victory, 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 ...
Private 1st Class Harold Gonsalves received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions during the Battle of ...
His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University. You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing [email protected].
To dislodge them, 50,000 American Marines and Army soldiers threw themselves against the entrenched enemy, resulting in ...
The joint U.S.-French-Japanese exercises mark the first time that a French Navy aircraft carrier operated in the Pacific Ocean in ... U.S. Navy’s Wasp-class and America-class amphibious assault ...
An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years ... up violently before banking left and plummeting into the Pacific Ocean. Several aircraft circled the crash site to ...
The Flying Tigers were one of the first American air units to fight the Japanese as World War II began. A gruff Texas native, Claire Chennault, organized the volunteer force in the months before ...
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
The US Air Force restores North Field Airbase, the WWII launch site for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, to ...