More than 80 years after the Battle of Guadalcanal, communities today are still grappling with the unexploded devices left ...

The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University. You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com.

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

“The weather is absolutely perfect,” an NBC broadcaster announced from an otherwise uninhabited Pacific atoll on ... a diplomatic crisis during World War II, served in the space program ...

Below its emerald waters, these tropical islands in the heart of the Pacific conceal the world's biggest underwater graveyard ...

On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942 ... U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning point of WWII. 1ST TO FIGHT: PACIFIC WAR MARINES, narrated by actor Jon Seda, documents ...

invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...

Journey through the blood-soaked shores of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in The Pacific, a war drama that intertwines personal struggles with intense combat sequences.

Focus on the strategic competition in the South Pacific has heightened since China struck a security pact with the Solomon Islands last year that raised the prospect of a Chinese naval foothold ...