The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a turning point in world history, pulling the United States directly into ...

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

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

THE war in the Pacific has been variously described as a war of communications, a war of logistics, a war of bases. These terms describe the accumulation of offensive power, rather than its ...

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

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.

It's been called the "forgotten theater" of World War II. But now the Allied campaign in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945 is being thrust front and center for commemoration, as a new Steven Spielberg ...

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

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.

Hollywood has long hypersexualized Pacific Islander women. But the new historical series "Chief of War" paints a different ...

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander John Sefcik, a weapons officer assigned to USS Farragut, said in a news release on July 22: ...

The Japanese High Command conceived the war in the Pacific as one to be fought, like the trench warfare of 1914-1918, in terms of area and fixed defenses.