Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against ...

Amid the closing months of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima emerged as a brutal contest for control of a tiny but vital ...

With China as its new rival, America is reviving old wartime facilities across the Pacific. Tinian once allowed its bombers ...

To regain deterrence by 2027 will require doubling down on conventional naval investments in warships and shipyards, while ...

Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, honoring the over 400 Code Talkers who served with U.S. Marines in the Pacific ...

The Pacific war was about far more than being “different.” Indeed, before and after the war, race was not a determining factor in American and Japanese relations.

Commemorations were held to recognise the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific, in which Australia played a key role.

World War II is sometimes thought of as primarily a fight against Nazi Germany, with the war in the Pacific as an after-thought. Fortunately, there is no shortage of worthwhile books about the ...

THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR premieres Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel. THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR immerses viewers in a graphic and dramatic look through an unfiltered lens.

1st to fight: Pacific War Marinesis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Today marks the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to American forces in World War II. According to the novelist James Michener in his 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Tales of the South ...