Among the most strategically vital objectives for the United States forces in the Pacific during World War II were three islands in the Marianas: Saipan, Guam and Tinian. Close enough to the Japanese ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a collaborative effort, the U.S. Air Force's 356th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Group (ECEG) is undertaking significant ...
The United States has reached a milestone in enhancing its combat capabilities amid China's missile threat to its Western Pacific military bases, as a World War II-era airfield on a remote island held ...
IT COULD BE a giant archaeological dig. Bulldozers tear at the jungle to reclaim the history of the second world war and its dark finale: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this ...
John Meshnik was there for the Allies' victory over Japan in World War II, though he didn't know it at the time. A Navy meat cutter on the captured Pacific island Tinian in August 1945, Meshnik heard ...