DPAA has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the WWII sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

Thomas McGuire Jr. was chasing Dick Bong's record when his life was cut short several months before war's end.

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

British historian and journalist Holland (Fortress Malta) vividly recalls the final year of World War II in Italy in this masterful narrative. The controversial decision to invade Sicily and Italy ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

In June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The ...

In 1944, the Allies fought a hidden war designed to shatter Axis morale from within. This story follows the soldiers, sailors, and civilians who were targeted by radio deception, forged mail, and ...

I'm not a sports fan at all, but I can enjoy a good sports movie. Saipan is a bit of a curio, running counter to the usual sports film narrative. Instead of training montages, there are carousing ...

A U.S. military base constructed and used during World War II on Baltra Island, part of the Galapagos Islands, was largely dismantled after the war. A group of researchers created a 3D digital ...