Many who join the U.S. Navy often cite their desire to sail around the world as motivation. For James "Jim" Gardner, who ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima cost nearly 7000 Americans their lives. This weekend, the National Museum of the Pacific War honors ...

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s forensic lab in Hawaii has begun analyzing dozens of human remains retrieved from Laos and the Philippines in recent weeks in hopes of identifying U.S. service ...

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement ... American military presence on the Pacific island that dates back to World War II. Under the agreement, 9,000 Marines ...

Congressman John Joyce welcomed 97 year old World War II veteran Walter Marasco and his family to his office in Altoona to finally present him with his military service medals.Upon realizing that he ...

The Philippine Mars' final flight ended in Lake Pleasant, Arizona, where the aircraft will be displayed. See photos of the ...

Hell in the Pacific is a criminally underrated World War II film that starred none other than Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

While some Americans may no longer view military service as a prerequisite ... Bush (except for Ronald Reagan, who spent World War II making wartime propaganda films in Hollywood) had been in ...

The Bombing of Darwin, coupled with the Fall of Singapore just days before, marked the “lowest point” of the Pacific War for ...

Eighty-three years after the bombing of Darwin — the largest attack carried out by a foreign power on Australian soil — experts say the event marked a turning point in Australia's alliance with the ...

An art exhibit has opened at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the battle to free the Philippine capital during World War II. Liberation of Manila ...