The largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific theater in the Second World War began 75 years ago Wednesday. On April 1, 1945, Easter Sunday that year, four Army divisions and two divisions of Marines ...

AMERICA is getting into her stride in the Pacific. In spite of Japan’s offensive power and the strength of her positions, which together guarantee a long struggle, our war of planes, ships, and ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. Last week, we covered the failed third Japanese attempt at retaking the important island ...

“The Great Pacific War,” a futuristic novel about a war between the U.S. and Japan in 1931, is published by Hector Bywater, a British military journalist. In it, ...

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...

Great Britain, in the wake of massive losses in the Great War, adopted a planning rule that the armed forces should follow a ten-year rule and not plan on fighting a war during that time.