The Pacific skies were ruled by two American icons: the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Each had strengths, weaknesses, and ...

The exercise, the largest scale in the Pacific since the Cold War, looked at managing airpower across contested environments.

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

The Pacific war was about far more than being “different.” Indeed, before and after the war, race was not a determining factor in American and Japanese relations.

America lost a patriot last month when Arnold Palacios, the 10th governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ...

JAPAN’S long succession of defeats in the Pacific has had more impact on her High Command than fear of Russian participation in the war or Germany’s collapse. They are more concerned with ...

THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR premieres Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel. THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR immerses viewers in a graphic and dramatic look through an unfiltered lens.

The war in the Pacific holds the keys to addressing our problems today. In this Jan. 19, 1945, photo, black smoke rises from burning targets at the Kawasaki aircraft plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo ...

The Japanese High Command conceived the war in the Pacific as one to be fought, like the trench warfare of 1914-1918, in terms of area and fixed defenses.