Lt. Shoss, later colonel, was like many World War II veterans. He didn’t speak much about his ordeals until much later in ...

July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.

FDR announces that, by Executive Order, Pacific Coast Japanese Americans will be relocated to internment camps. During the course of the war, over 17,000 Japanese Americans volunteer and fight for ...

The research, published in Nature Communications, suggests even the dog breeds and village dogs found in the Americas and Pacific Islands are almost completely derived from recent European dog stock.

A growing consensus among Asia analysts in Washington posits that China is readying for a war with the U.S. over Taiwan by 2027.

Airfields are few and far between across the vast reaches of the western Pacific Ocean. Every strip of concrete capable of ...

A war between the US and China in the Pacific is not "imminent or inevitable," but the threat of one is growing, according to ...

Bristling with armaments and seemingly strong, the current ad hoc Western coalition may yet prove, like NATO, vulnerable to sudden setbacks from rising partisan pressures. The USS Nimitz and USS ...

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ukraine launched at least 17 drones targeting Moscow early on Sunday, forcing the temporarily closure of ...

The People's Republic of China is studying the war in Ukraine and drawing its own conclusions about how to prepare for future ...

The Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor on Oahu island in Hawaii in the early morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Japan time, opening the Pacific War, which lasted more than three years and eight months.

At War in the Pacific National Historical Park, the former battlefields, gun emplacements, trenches, and historic structures all serve as silent reminders of the bloody World War II battles that raged ...