Lloyd Woo eases a motorboat through the clear blue waters of the Bismarck Sea in the southwestern Pacific, to the edge of a coral reef. When he sights a specific cluster of coconut palms on the shore ...

The improvised strategy that led to Rabaul being bypassed, rather than assaulted as Washington (and MacArthur) had wanted (from a distance) in 1942 has, since then, been presented as an exemplar of a ...

IN JULY 1942, B-17 pilot Harl Pease Jr., of Plymouth, was promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain after nine months of active duty in the Pacific. He had flown numerous bombing missions against the ...

As MacArthur’s unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New ...

The wrecks of World War II-era aircraft have become popular tourist sites, attracting divers, history buffs and visitors simply looking to find... Lloyd Woo eases a motorboat through the clear blue ...