By April 1945, the war in Europe had ended with Allied victory, but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from ...

Kings and Generals' Pacific War series continues with an in-depth look at Japan’s legendary A6M Mitsubishi Zero, the fighter that shattered Allied air superiority in WWII. Designed by Jiro Horikoshi, ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Japan completes capture of Burma and reaches India. June: Battle of Midway: In what is later seen as the "turning point" of the Pacific war, American carrier aircraft sink all four of the Japanese ...

The Navy’s surface fleet has spent the past 15 months taking down hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s ...

This was the brackish taste of defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox ... s wife and three-year-old son, when war struck. But the wives and daughters ...

He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint ... He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek. He separates fact from fiction ...