The exercise, the largest scale in the Pacific since the Cold War, looked at managing airpower across contested environments.

The Pacific skies were ruled by two American icons: the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Each had strengths, weaknesses, and ...

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The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

A future war with China would still require American forces to cross the Pacific, but the situation in that regard is far better than the one America faced in 1941. Well-developed bases on Okinawa ...

As a naval aviator in World War II, Donald McPherson got five aerial kills. Then he spent decades in a life of service.

More than 80 years later, officials, veterans and civil rights groups, are urging Congress to award World War II hero Dorie Miller the Medal of Honor.

In May 1945 the War Department distributed pamphlets to Pacific bound troops aimed to separate fact from fiction about the Japanese soldier and urge them to get tough to win.

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space Museum's airport annex.

Yet there is still time to regain deterrence by 2027, and begin to ensure that any war of China’s choosing in the Pacific can be quickly decided in our favor.

There’s a final bit to this, too. By the time the Pacific War was drawing to a close, it was clear to all serious observers that the Soviet Union would be America’s great foe in the postwar era.