Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese launched their devastating surprise attack on the American Naval Base in Pearl ...

There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

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Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Okinawa authorities discovered a U.S.-made bomb believed to date to World War II during an airport safety survey on a southern Japanese island, the first ordnance found in a series of inspections ...