WWII ‘Pacific Theatre’ – two survivors share their experiences from the war
Like any other war, the Second World War brought us all levels of propaganda used by both sides. For the US marines, the Japanese were…
Remembering Hiroo Onoda: Japanese Soldier who Fought WWII for 29 Years After It Ended!
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier a brave and an amazing survivor. However, he was surviving and fighting for a war that has long since…
Recovering the bodies of WWII Soldiers killed on Peleliu Island
Japan is looking to launch an excavation campaign to recover the bodies of thousands of soldiers buried in caves on Peleliu Island in Palau. This…
The search for the lost Planes of the Pacific theatre
On March 30, 2015 a team of marine researchers found a missing plane from Second Word War, in the waters of Republic of Palau. The…
Revisiting HBO’s “The Pacific” and John Basilone
Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone is one of what has come to be known as the “Greatest Generation”, the group of men and women who went…
Leyte Gulf Landing Celebrates Its 70th Year
70 years after WWII General Douglas MacArthur, along with over 100,000 Allied troops, landed at the Red Beach, Palo, Leyte, the country and dignitaries from other nations marked…
WWII ‘Zerosen” Fighter Pilot Says His Piece about WWII in a Documentary
Former WWII ‘zerosen’ fighter pilot, Kaname Harada, shares his reflections about the Second World War in an upcoming documentary by the film group Nagoya katsudo Shashin.…
Missing WWII Marine Identified
Washington-The Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office of the Department of Defense recently announced the identification of lost WWII Marine Randolph Allen. According to reports, the…
US MARINE CORPS FIGHTER SQUADRONS OF WORLD WAR II – Review by Mark Barnes
There was another war a long way from Europe that entailed fleets and armies travelling huge distances to collectively experience all the see-saw stuff –…
Relics from WWII Have Recently Been Found at Mili
It has been decades since WWII, but remnants of the struggle are still being discovered worldwide. On Mili (one of the Marshall Islands in the…
Navy Publishes Nimitz Diary Online
The Navy unveiled a gold mine of WWII information when it decided to publish Nimitz Diary – about 4,000 pages of personal records written by Fleet…
Pacific Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s “Gray Book” Journal Digitized
During the battles in the Pacific during World War II, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz kept a daily journal now referred to as the “Gray Book.”…