The remains of a United States Navy Ensign killed near Yap Island over the Pacific Ocean during World War II has finally ...

Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

An excerpt from ‘The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal and Hell’, by Gautam Hazarika.

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

Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant today in containing Washington's near-peer competitor, China, ...

When the United States launched its historic military gambit against Iran's nuclear program, the world's gaze was trained thousands of kilometres away on a Pacific island. Officials made a decoy of ...