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After surviving POW camps, Guadalcanal and the Bataan Death March, Fargo’s Dobervich brothers came home to make the town’s ...
Under cover of night on November 29, 1943, USS Minneapolis led Task Force 67 into Ironbottom Sound to intercept a Japanese ...
One of the remaining U.S. Marines who helped liberate Guam from Japanese soldiers during World War II, former Cpl. Frank S.
He joined the Marines at 16, served as a Raider, and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal in World War II. Now, he just wants ...
The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the Pacific War’s most grueling and prolonged battles, costing both the United States and ...
Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliu Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don Brown. Stackpole, $29.95 ...
About 110 people met at Fukuoka city hall on June 19. They came to remember a big bombing that happened in Fukuoka 80 years ...
Japan has cancelled a top-level meeting with the US after the Trump administration abruptly told Tokyo to spend more on defence, sparking anger in Washington’s closest Asian ally.
A 1942 aerial map that had previously gone unnoticed and unused in a Hawaiian museum archive held the key to locating Rowe ...
The American campaign to wrest the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began on Aug. 7, 1942. The first land campaign of the Pacific, Guadalcanal was to play an outsized roll in turning the ...
Marking 80 years since the devastating air raids on this southwest Japan city that left over 1,000 people in the city center dead or missin ...
It’s now more common than ever, as a weak yen has turned Japan into Bali (with better beer), and it seems everyone you know is going there. Most people will gush about the trains, the temples ...