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

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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 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.

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.

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 ...

WE ARE ahead of schedule in the Pacific war because we have outfought, outgeneraled, and outproduced the Japanese. The ocean empire of Japan, as distinct from her continental possessions, lies ...

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.

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.