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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But there are also several key differences between the island-hopping campaign from 1942 and 1945 and how the U.S. military would respond to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which is often cited as ...

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 ...

Pacific Air Forces, which is striving to be able to orchestrate a strike campaign from multiple far-flung island bases faster than a highly capable enemy like China can target them, tested the ...

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 ...