Tokyo is reportedly planning to enhance facilities and station aircraft on the island, and establish a Pacific defence ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

During the brutal Pacific campaign of World War II, the battle for the island of Saipan became one of the most decisive and savage struggles between the United States and Imperial Japan. Control of ...

Kenneth Walsh worked up a tactical doctrine for the Vought F4U-1 - and put it to the test.

Submarines operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres, attacking warships, merchant vessels and supply routes throughout the second World War.

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...

In the far reaches of the Pacific, scattered east of Papua New Guinea, lies an archipelago that feels like a secret the ocean has kept to itself. When you arrive, the humid, tropical air does more ...

One of the nation’s last living survivors of the Battle of Iwo Jima is still standing tall more than eight decades later. At ...

The National Museum of the Pacific War will present a live World War II battle reenactment as part of its Pacific Valor program on March 14, 2026, ...

China's Missile Reach Forces Japan Back To Iwo Jima. Japan is considering a significant expansion of its military presence on ...

From the "Imperial Headquarters Announcements" and pine root oil, to hyped Minamitorishima rare earth mud, and finally to the all-encompassing information cocoons about China, Japan has never learned ...

World War II accelerated weapons innovation at an unprecedented pace. As global conflict intensified, the United States rapidly expanded and refined its arsenal, adapting existing designs while ...