In the Pacific War, thousands of American Marines were dying before they ever reached the beach. This video tells the story of the LVT, an ungainly amphibious vehicle that quietly transformed island ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, will hold a reopening ceremony Saturday at 10 a.m. for its newly remodeled George H.W. Bush Gallery, with free ...

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