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The Pacific War: Brutal fighting across the world’s largest battlefield

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

#TBT: National Museum of the Pacific War honors Iwo Jima heroes with commemorative event

One of the most enduring images of World War II remains the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Iwo Jima. Captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on ...
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Japan’s selective amnesia about the Pacific War

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 ...
Stars and Stripes

Pacific War author’s ‘Guam,’ due in March, fills a void

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 ...
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World War II-era target ship prematurely sinks before US and Philippine forces can use in ...

A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go down in ...