invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...

The U.S. has deployed its bombers to five Indo-Pacific locations that are outside the continental U.S., a Newsweek map shows.

A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean came across the unexpected sight of a Ford automobile in the ship's hangar.

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group of Pacific ... during World War II, with the islands remaining the ...