When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

Hook’s 11-page memoir is on the website, The World War II Experience, a local nonprofit that preserves the stories of the ...

There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

The USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier that saw service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ...

LODI -- Corporal Frank S. Wright, 98, will proudly tell you that he quit high school in 1942 to join the military during World War II. The Lodi veteran said he chose the Marines for one simple reason.

The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fleet Admiral Nimitz served as CinCPAC, Commander in Chief, United ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Stretching from the U.S. Pacific Coast to the Indian Ocean, encompassing Northeast and Southeast Asia, South Asia and Oceania — including the Pacific Islands — the area known as ...

Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area's fog-shrouded coast seems tailor-made for hiding ghosts from the past. But now, a research team has pulled back the curtain on a mystery that's endured for nearly 80 ...

The 314-foot destroyer was located largely intact, and is resting upright on the seabed roughly 200 miles east of Christmas ...