One such American battleship was the USS Washington (BB-56) of the North Carolina-class fast battleship. And one of ...

On December 3, 1942, aerial reconnaissance over Japanese-held territory near Guadalcanal revealed an unsettling anomaly - ...

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County. It was ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon ...

In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of hope that the United States wouldn’t ...

The USS O’Bannon (DD-450), a destroyer, played a vital role in World War II as one of the most decorated ships in the war. It joined the battle for Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ...

On April 1, 1945, thousands of American troops landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a heavily fortified Pacific island to the south of Japan. Nearly three months later, the United States claimed ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

It later participated in actions across the Pacific, including the decisive battles of Saipan and Okinawa ... according to the World War II Museum. The New Orleans’ bow was found during the 21-day ...

As part of the 80th anniversary of World War II's Pacific Theater, the band at Ada-Borup West is performing a special tribute Tuesday night, ... Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guadalcanal.

MetroWest residents have an opportunity to catch a World War II Pacific Theater reenactment this coming weekend. The American Heritage Museum in Hudson is hosting the reenactment on July 12-13 ...