Amid the closing months of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima emerged as a brutal contest for control of a tiny but vital ...

Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against ...

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With China as its new rival, America is reviving old wartime facilities across the Pacific. Tinian once allowed its bombers ...

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.

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.

The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions. July 9, 1944 ...

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.

1st to fight: Pacific War Marinesis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Our Navy, in the Pacific war, suffered an initial defeat which, in terms of relative fighting power, was as serious as that suffered by the Russian Army. The factors which saved us both are also ...