Satellite Photos Show China Rebuilding World War II Airfield in Pacific

Satellite imagery reviewed by Newsweek this week showed Chinese-led work to revive a World War II-era runway was nearing ...
Walking Archive on MSN

Seven minutes that saved the Pacific War in World War II

This video tells the story of the night USS Washington fought alone against a Japanese fleet. It follows Admiral Willis Lee, ...
WRAL

A torpedoed US Navy ship escaped the Pacific in reverse, using coconut logs. Its sunken bow has just been found

(CNN) — (CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. (CNN) — (CNN) – ...
The Diplomat

Contemplating Naval Combat in the Western Pacific 80 Years After the Largest Sea Battle in History

The Battle of Leyte Gulf holds important lessons for a hypothetical China-U.S. naval clash – and Chinese strategists know it. An explosion on the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) after she was hit by a kamikaze ...

A Second U.S. Navy Supercarrier Now Deployed To The Western Pacific

USS George Washington (CVN-73) returned to her home port of Yokosuka while USS Abraham Lincoln is now in Guam.
The National Interest on MSN

US and Japan Expand Mine Warfare Readiness in Indo-Pacific

The US Navy drilled on mine warfare with its Japanese counterpart, while Russia and China held joint military drills across ...
Flying

U.S. Air Force, Navy Restore Historic WWII-Era Airfield in the Pacific

U.S. military forces are restoring the historic World War II airfield at North Field Air Base on Tinian, reclaiming it from jungle growth in a $409 million, five-year project. The reclaimed ...
Big Island Now

Attack on Pearl Harbor from Japanese fighter pilots, prisoners of war points of view

Adm. William Furlong was a U.S. Navy rear admiral during World War II and served as Chief of Naval Ordnance from 1937 to 1941 ...
The Nation

The New Cold War in the Pacific Is Dangerously Close to Heating Up

Bristling with armaments and seemingly strong, the current ad hoc Western coalition may yet prove, like NATO, vulnerable to sudden setbacks from rising partisan pressures. The USS Nimitz and USS ...
Army Times on MSN

The Army-Navy game that ‘stopped the war’

The 1944 game delivered a brief respite from the far-flung battles across the globe, drawing attention back to a good, ...
Foreign Affairs

Naval Bases in the Pacific

THE problem of naval bases in the Pacific assumed new significance from the beginning of the present year, for that was the date when the political and naval agreements concluded at the Washington ...