MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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It would be hard to overstate the significance of the Battle of Midway, which all but ended Japan’s ability to prosecute an offensive war in the Pacific during World War II. Indeed, historians Jonathan B. Parshall and Anthony P. Tull have called the

All About History

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Some of the most brutal fighting of World War II took place in the Pacific theatre as combined Allied forces looked to tackle Imperial Japan. With battles taking place by land, sea and air, the War in the Pacific was a microcosm of all of the conflic

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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They fell from the skies like so many paper snowflakes in World War II: propaganda leaflets designed, in one way or another, to demonize and demoralize enemy soldiers and their compatriots—or, as an official directive of the Supreme Allied Command pu

Aviation History

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As a former F-4 Phantom and A-7 Corair II pilot (both Air Force and U.S. Navy), he brings a veteran’s knowledge of the technical and tactical aspects of the events about which he writes so well. In The Early Air War in the Pacific, Wetterhahn revisit

World War II

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Compass Games, $42. WORLD WAR II RATING THE BASICS Pacific Tide: The United States versus Japan, 1941-45 is a strategic two-person board game set against the backdrop of World War II’s Pacific Theater. Players assume command of either American (and s

History of War

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They called it the Pacific War. Barely three years after the spectacular success at Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was on its last legs. From Midway to Palau, Japan suffered losses – carriers, cruisers, submarines, planes and men – th

Saturday Star

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A US Defense Department agency is about to seek permission for the exhumation from a cemetery in Hawaii of hundreds of unidentified remains of World War II POWs killed on Japanese prison vessels known as “hell ships”. ■

Aviation History

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> A 1906 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain Sr. served on a cruiser in the Atlantic during World War I and on warships during the 1920s. Like his contemporary, William F. Halsey, McCain was a latecomer to naval aviation, qualifying as a pilot

World War II

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TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, which covers 1944 and 1945, completes naval historian Ian Toll’s much-lauded trilogy on the Pacific War at sea between the United States and Japan. The first two volumes, 2012’s Pacific Crucible and 2016’s The Conquering Tide, c

All About History

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The Second World War was a time of deep economical, political, and military unrest – and its severe impact was felt not only by civilians, but by well-known faces of film, too. A multitude of known actors, producers, and singers of Hollywood’s golde

American History

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Ravaged by aerial attack, the auxiliary tender, heavily burdened with a load of ammunition, depth charges, and aviation fuel, was wallowing in open water between the Solomon Islands and New Guinea on Friday, May 22, 1943. The vessel’s 136-man crew ha

History of War

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General Douglas MacArthur was the son of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, a recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War. He was a 1903 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, and served as the academy superintendent f

World War II

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The waves in the Philippine Sea were monstrous, as winds roared at up to 140 miles per hour. Visibility dropped to near zero. On the dark, gray morning of December 18, 1944, Henry Plage, skipper of the destroyer escort USS Tabberer, and Jim Marks, ca

Military History

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The U.S. Army did 80 percent of the fighting against Japan, yet the Marines dominate popular histories. In an effort to restore the balance, John McManus, a professor of American military history, spotlights the Army’s role in first two years of the

Military History

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In 1942 Japan believed that by seizing Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and adjacent sea-lanes, it could prevent the United States from attacking from the north. Thus on June 3, 1942, a Japanese aircraft carrier task force attacked the U.S. military install

BBC World Histories Magazine

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A US marine is buried at sea from the attack transport ship USS Hansford during the American invasion of Iwo Jima in February 1945. A large American fleet carried landing craft, vehicles and three divisions of marines across the Pacific, delivering t

Yachting World

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New Zealand and Australia have rejected pleas from cruisers seeking refuge from Pacific cyclones. In a formal reply to the Ocean Cruising Club in mid-September, both countries refused to lift a ban on foreign ships other than cargo or fishing vessels

Classic Boat

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Sailors from the Europe and the UK, and from the east coast of North America will all set off for the South Pacific from Panama after transiting the canal. This puts you in an excellent position for a downwind run to the Polynesian islands. If desire

Australian Geographic

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Join us on board expedition vessel Coral Discoverer on a 13-night expedition voyage through the autonomous regions of Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII in May 1945. This expedition explor

Yachting World

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Back in the early 1990s, a young man called Miles Hordern sailed his 28ft Kim Holman-designed Twister single-handed from the UK to New Zealand. He lived aboard in Auckland for the first winter before moving ashore and becoming progressively divorced

International Traveller

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Tropical, relaxing, friendly and fun, the Pacific is an ever-popular ocean to cruise, particularly for Australians with cruises departing from the East Coast and New Zealand. It’s a top choice for people who love the sun, the great outdoors, snorkell

History of War

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The familiar sight of Japanese troops storming an Allied airfield with their flag aloft after bombing raids and naval bombardments had hammered the enemy into submission. The image of ruined, smoldering planes - this one was taken in Malaya - was rep

NPR

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Rimas Meleshyus has been lost at sea in small boats for much of his sailing career. The latest voyage landed him at the island of Saipan after yet another ill-fated adventure.

National Geographic Traveller (UK)

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Keen to put some distance between you and 2020? Try this 24-day cruise through the Pacific, from Keelung to Fiji via the islands of the South Pacific. Hapag-Lloyd bills it as ‘for true explorers’ — and that’s not just because the official language is

ASIAN Geographic

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The Arctic Ocean is the fifth largest, and covers an area of 15.6 million square kilometres. The ocean has an average depth of 1,205 metres and a total volume of 18.8 million cubic kilometres, which is 1.4 percent of the Earth’s waters. Despite being

North & South

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Although set in contemporary London, this novel earns a place in these pages because its Ugandan-born, British-raised author is now a resident of these islands. It deals with a milieu familiar from British TV crime dramas: gritty, contemporary, urban

Chicago Tribune

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GEOQUIZ: The Cook Strait separates the major islands of which country? Answer: New Zealand. Passing between the North and South Islands, the strait connects the Tasman Sea and south Pacific Ocean. Visit Chicago Tribune at www.chicagotribune.com

Military History

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By September 1944 U.S. forces had wrested the Mariana Islands and Papua New Guinea from the Japanese and were ready for the next step in their island-hopping campaign toward the Philippines. To keep enemy air assets from threatening the northern flan

Soundings

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When Bert ter Hart raised Rarotonga after four months alone at sea since leaving the Falkland Islands, he was, of course, elated. After worrying about running out of food he was going to receive emergency provisions. He had finally put behind him the

Boat International

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Francesca Thyssen-Bomemisza was bom to be an art collector and ocean activist. Her father, Baron Hans Heinrich, owned one of the world’s finest collections of art – his trove of treasures was surpassed only by Queen Elizabeth II, and Thyssen-Bornemis