On April 18, 1943, six elite Japanese Zero pilots were given the highest honor escorting Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on a routine inspection flight over the South Pacific. What followed was one of World ...

Epic Guide to World War II National Park Sites, including home front and parks in the Pacific, Memorials, and the history of each National Park Site. The Anchor from the USS Arizona, where 1,177 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area's fog-shrouded coast seems tailor-made for hiding ghosts from the past. But now, a research team has pulled back the curtain on a mystery that's endured for nearly 80 ...

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 ...

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- "This was some tough stuff," reflected Vern Shmidt, a 99-year-old Valley veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of a handful of veterans who walked ...

A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber ...

NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Warhawk and Nate Down, Mariveles volcano, Bataan Peninsula, Philippines -- Admiral Yamamoto's grand scheme -- Tora Tora Tora! -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, will hold a reopening ceremony Saturday at 10 a.m ...

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 ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from ...