Tears well up in John Holtom's eyes when he thinks of the Marine commando uncle he never knew, a hero who died 59 years ago yesterday in a raid on a Japanese-held atoll in the southwest Pacific.

In this impressive second volume of a planned trilogy, historian Ian W. Toll again demonstrates his mastery at depicting World War II naval, air and land combat in the Pacific. The Conquering Tide is ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — A World War II hero from Rhode Island who lost his life in 1942 while trying to save fellow soldiers from a sinking ship is being honored. The public is invited to attend the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 10—As the year 2022 approaches a close, think back to 80 years ago. It is just after the devastating Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

Prize-winning freelance naval historian Toll (Six Frigates) chronicles one of the U.S. Navy’s finest performances of WWII in this page-turning narrative of the months following the devastating attacks ...

This solid second volume in naval historian Toll’s planned three-volume history of the U.S. Navy in the WWII’s Pacific Theater (after 2012’s Pacific Crucible) follows the campaign from the summer of ...

In this 1942 episode of the cartoon, Superman sabotages the Yokohama Navy and rescues Lois Lane from the Japanese army. For photographs of U.S. mobilization in Asia in 1942, see Alan Taylor's World ...

For six dark months following the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, virtually every news report from the Pacific left America reeling. Japanese forces rolled over Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong and ...

Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its ...