Overgrown, weatherworn evidence of the “island-hopping” campaign of World War II, when U.S. forces leapfrogged across the Pacific, battling the Empire of Japan for strategic advantage on ...

Pacific Air Forces, headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, plans to expand its Pacific island-hopping campaign next year -- known as Agile Combat Employment, or ACE -- to give ...

Bodies of US WW2 troops found on Pacific island. 26 ... say some of the graves were hastily dug where the men fell as America erected runways and bases to continue its "island-hopping" campaign ...

It’s been a very exciting year for the U.S. Marines deployed in the Pacific, for a number of reasons. One of them, and of particular interest to us today, is the fact they got to play around, a ...

George Bush Gallery. Any visit begins at the 33,000-square-foot George H.W. Bush gallery, named after our president who flew a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber during the war.

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. Check ...

But he predicted an island hopping campaign that is quite similar to what actually happened. Indeed, many of the islands Ellis identified would become the sites of some of the Marine Corps ...

Schools and workplaces on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will close and areas will be evacuated on Thursday while Australian army sappers try to defuse a 500-pound (227 kg) "armed and dangerous ...

Hawaii isn’t an island chain in the Western or South Pacific, but it is being used to replicate one for multiservice military training as the Army and Marines prepare to become a 21st-century ...

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 ...