The Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between August 7th of 1942 and February 9th of 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal of the Solomon Island chain, in the Pacific ...

Clint Eastwood’s $65 million World War 2 box office bomb is given high marks for realism by a former Marine Corps special ops ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, as Marines and Army soldiers fought to seize an airfield carved into its coral rocks. Search for: ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...

Island Hopping July 8th, 2018 1 hr Under the command of Admiral Nimitz in 1943, America advances towards Japan, engaging in a new series of island-hopping invasions through the Central Pacific.

The P-38 Lightning is one of the most bizarre planes of World War II, thanks to its interesting double-tail configuration.It also sported two Allison V-1710 engines, each making 1,475 horsepower ...

Assigned to the Southwest Pacific Area of operations in the summer of 1942, I Corps, under the command of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, led the first successful Allied land campaign against the ...