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

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Bay Area locals are being invited by USS Hornet staff to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug.

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

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The Pacific war was about far more than being “different.” Indeed, before and after the war, race was not a determining factor in American and Japanese relations.

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The Japanese High Command conceived the war in the Pacific as one to be fought, like the trench warfare of 1914-1918, in terms of area and fixed defenses.

THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR premieres Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel. THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR immerses viewers in a graphic and dramatic look through an unfiltered lens.

Our Navy, in the Pacific war, suffered an initial defeat which, in terms of relative fighting power, was as serious as that suffered by the Russian Army. The factors which saved us both are also ...