Overgrown, weatherworn evidence of the “island-hopping” campaign of World War II, when U.S. forces leapfrogged across the Pacific, battling the Empire of Japan for strategic advantage on ...

The Conquest of New Georgia was a critical battle in the Pacific War, as Allied forces fought to break Japanese control over the Solomon Islands. This fierce campaign involved brutal jungle ...

Assigned to the Southwest Pacific Area of operations in the summer of 1942, I Corps, under the command of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, led the first successful Allied land campaign against ...

A lot of the military’s memory of the Pacific campaign during World War II focuses primarily on island fighting such as New Guinea, Tarawa and Iwo Jima, which began in the midst of the Manila fight.

turned the tide in the Pacific. The U.S. had been forced onto the defensive by Pearl Harbor and by pre-war planning delusions. In fact, however, another World War II campaign may trump the importance ...

Summary: Dr. John McManus, a renowned military historian, delivered a keynote address at the Land Forces Pacific (LANPAC ... the scale and complexity of the campaign, the challenges of logistics ...

It’s located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean roughly equidistant from Hawaii, Japan and Australia. US forces were mounting an island-by-island campaign to peel back Japanese imperialist ...

PALESTINE: Australian and New Zealand mounted troops fought in the successful campaign to drive Turkish forces out of Palestine and the Sinai. WESTERN FRONT: The main event of WWI for Australia ...