In a move with clear strategic implications, a Chinese state-owned company has begun rebuilding a World War II-era airfield ...

Investment in regional projects is allowing China to expand its influence in the South Pacific at the U.S.'s expense, ...

Japan's royal family wrapped up a two day visit to Okinawa Thursday, where they paid respects to the victims of a World War ...

The US Air Force is bringing back the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission. The long-dormant World War II airfield, North Field, is based on ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently ... as well as an airfield from which kamikaze pilots took off on suicide attack missions. Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported ...

was assigned the critical task of rehabilitating the WWII-era Japanese airfield, enhancing U.S. military strategic capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. On June 22, a KC-130J Super Hercules ...

The airfield at North Field Air Base ... used as a launching point for B-29 bombers during WWII, contributing to missions targeting Imperial Japan to include the ‘Enola Gay’ and its historic ...

Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield is ... The initial objective for the First Marine Division was to take the Japanese airfield on Peleliu. Thick, concrete Japanese pillboxes ...

A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

(WTVM) - A piece of American war history is now rebuilt decades later. The World War II-era Japanese airfield on a Pacific Island is now named after a Marine hero from Alabama. Henry Sledge is ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese divers working magnetic surveys for the government at two sites on Okinawa discovered 20 pieces of unexploded ordnance believed to be left over from World War II.

An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed ... attacks on mainland Japan. The island is a similar ...