Pacific Theater Archives - Page 8 of 24

WWII Aircraft: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

U.S. Navy dive-bomber crews flew the unpopular and flawed Curtiss SB2C Helldiver late in World War II.

24 December 2018

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Tom Harrisson: An Anthropologist’s War in Borneo

Anthropologist Tom Harrisson led operations against the Japanese on the world’s third largest island.

24 December 2018

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Deaths in WWII: Casualties, and the Graves Registration Units

The grim but necessary task of caring the the war dead was the responsibility of the Army’s graves registration units.

24 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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Storming the Point at Peleliu

The 1st Marine Division staged a bloody amphibious assault for a questionable prize.

23 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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Japan’s Road to War

Five decades of mutual antagonism spark war int he Pacific and East Asia.

23 December 2018

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The USO Turns 75: American soldiers’ “Home Away From Home”

During WWII, the unique civilian organization did much to boost the morale of soldiers at home and abroad.

23 December 2018

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National Museum of the Pacific War

The world-class National Museum of the Pacific War recalls the conflicts vast sweep.

23 December 2018

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An Ace in a day: Ted Crosby’s Air War in the Pacific

During furious fights over the Pacific, naval aviator Ted Crosby shot down five Japanese planes in one day.

22 December 2018

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Alex Vraciu: U.S. Navy Ace, Philippines Guerrilla

Fighter pilot Alex Vraciu fought along with Filipino guerrillas on the ground and in the air against Japanese planes.

22 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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Killing Yamamoto: Operation Vengeance From Roger Ames’ Cockpit

P-38 pilot Roger Ames, an American eyewitness, tells of the shooting down of Japan’s most important admiral.

22 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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Baptism for Pacific Paratroopers

22 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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No aircraft was more versatile during World War II than the Royal Air Force’s de Havilland Mosquito. Constructed of spruce, birch, balsa, and plywood, it played a unique role as a bomber, U-boat hunter, night fighter, strafer, pathfinder, interceptor, and reconnaissance plane.

22 December 2018

Carl Gnam

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Kerama Retto: Key to Victory at Okinawa

On a half dozen forgotten islands, American soldiers encountered the human cost of war.

20 December 2018

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USS Seawolf at the Battle of Christmas Island

The submarine Seawolf single-handedly tried to stop a Japanese invasion—and barely escaped to fight another day.

20 December 2018

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Demise of the Japanese Navy

The naval combat that raged around the Philippines invasion was preceded by a game of reconnaisance, intelligence gathering, and planning.

19 December 2018

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