They were a secret Marine platoon sent ashore before anyone else. Led by Frank Tachsky, these men—many pulled straight from ...

A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber ...

The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a new memorial honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese ...

Charles Araiza, who refused recognition out of humility, receives Japan Occupation Medal 80 years after serving in Pacific Theater.

Combat welder? There is a classification in both the United States Army and the US Navy today, but in the South Pacific ...

Seven Japanese-American soldiers deemed “enemy aliens” in World War II were posthumously commissioned eight decades after ...

HONOLULU — U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC), in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi (UH), honored seven World War II (WWII) ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Budget travelers can navigate the Pacific for as little as $50–$80 per day. By staying in local hubs like Nadi or Apia, you ...

We were living at Geiger Trailer Park, which were these little bitty trailers that I think Eleanor Roosevelt had arranged for World War II vets to live in,” she said, “And when we found out that we ...

In the middle of World War II, the United States faced a brutal problem in the Pacific: how to defeat Japan’s strongest island fortresses without sacrificing tens of thousands of lives. This story ...

Dominick Critelli, a 104-year-old World War II veteran and Battle of the Bulge survivor, stunned the crowd at UBS Arena with a saxophone rendition of the national anthem. Watch the emotional moment ...