During World War II, a US Army transport plane crashed deep in the jungles of New Guinea, stranding survivors in terrain with ...

Greater Geelong’s oldest World War II veteran Jack Carroll has died aged 102 after dedicating his life to serving his country ...

Long considered the "Holy Grail" of WWII U.S. naval aircraft recoveries, a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber may soon be ...

The Pacific Islands are rapidly becoming a key arena of competition between India and China.

A Fraser Coast woman has been reunited with a piece of lost family history after a group of metal detector enthusiasts ...

The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a new memorial honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese ...

(Corrects second bullet to say Bougainville president not PNG PM) By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The Pacific ...

The 4th Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division landed on several islands within the atoll. Four days later, ...

The World War II siege of Bastogne will be the focus at Erie's Hagen History Center on Jan. 17. The daylong event will celebrate American soldiers who refused to surrender though surrounded by German ...

Lena A. Dellea was born in Italy in 1901, and emigrated with her family to Canaan, N.Y. Over the years, she ran or worked at ...

"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...

Some gifts have been wink-and-a-nod messages. In 2004, with the U.S. public increasingly critical of the war in Iraq, the Sultan of Brunei gave President George W. Bush a copy of the “ Worst-Case ...