Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against Imperial Japan across oceans and islands. We chart its course from the surprise ...

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today.

In the Pacific War, thousands of American Marines were dying before they ever reached the beach. This video tells the story of the LVT, an ungainly amphibious vehicle that quietly transformed island ...

The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that ...

Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an incomplete frame. While the horrors endured by civilians during the Pacific War are ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Mark Perry TWILIGHT OF THE GODS War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 By Ian W. Toll On the ...

In Papua, U.S. Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger and members of his staff look over newly taken ground in the Triangle area, 1942. Credit: Centre for Military History Our popular memory of World ...