80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Zeiler, Thomas W. Unconditional Defeat: Japan, American, and the End of World ...
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...