There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...
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World War II national park sites

Epic Guide to World War II National Park Sites including home front and parks in the Pacific, Memorials, and history of ...
A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and now a ...
On the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 84 years ago today, we remember all Island veterans of World War II. Here’s a story from several years ago of one of our most esteemed and beloved ...
When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.
In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific.
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 ...
In 1944, PNG's Manus Island was home to one of the most impressive allied military bases in the Pacific. After signing the ...
For more than eight decades, the service of over 80 Cook Islanders who served during World War II went untold and ...