Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

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 ...

The remains of a United States Navy Ensign killed near Yap Island over the Pacific Ocean during World War II has finally ...

An excerpt from ‘The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal and Hell’, by Gautam Hazarika.

Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant today in containing Washington's near-peer competitor, China, ...

MUNDA, Solomon Islands — U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb squad members from other nations to confront and defeat World War II era ...

Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain via ...