There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately 13 square kilometres, it is little more than a speck on the map.

Sunday morning 7 December 1941 is a date that is printed in the collective American mind. It was the day the Japanese ...

A $409 million, five-year project is restoring the historic North Field Air Base on Tinian Island in the Western Pacific, reclaiming it from jungle overgrowth and WWII-era ordnance. The restored ...

Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

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 ...

After 80 years at the bottom of a remote Pacific lagoon, a sunken Japanese warship has begun to spill its toxic cargo into ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War ...

The United States is spending billions of dollars muscling up across its Pacific Island military outposts, but locals fear ...