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This video tells the story of the night USS Washington fought alone against a Japanese fleet. It follows Admiral Willis Lee, his radar operators, and the desperate battle to save Henderson Field. The ...

Unpacking the Local Impact of China’s Mega-Projects on Kyrgyzstan’s Regions The navies of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity in the ...

Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against Imperial Japan across oceans and islands. We chart its course from the surprise ...

America’s last known surviving World War II “ace”—a pilot who shot down five enemy planes—has died at age 103. Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific theater during the war’s ...

American service members in Australia can find remnants of their World War II predecessors in the center of one of the country’s largest cities. Brisbane, in the eastern state of Queensland, has ...

Preparation For War. Populations and Powers -- Military Strengths of the Allies -- Military Strengths of the Axis -- Fleets of Major World Powers -- Soviet Forces in Europe -- Japan and the Second ...

World War II, which concluded 80 years ago, was a historic event that defined a generation. Tens of millions of people fought brutal oppression and an unfathomable Holocaust. Today, the world ...