Rabaul was supposed to be a shield. After Japan captured the port in early 1942, it transformed the area into one of the most important bases in the South Pacific. Airfields, harbor facilities, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea on Friday sent smoke and ash spewing high over the South Pacific island nation, leading some aircraft to alter their flight paths. Mount ...

Rabaul is located in the northeast of New Britain. It is about 40 minutes by car from Kokopo, the central city of the island. Many visitors take tours of the military sites that are scattered around ...

In the bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the “Bougainville Express.” Last week the ...

As MacArthur’s unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New ...

However, Saunders said there was little pumice being produced by the volcano now as its activity has abated in the past week or two, and that pumice rafts around Manus Island had ...