From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
Guam jungle silently echoes long-ago guns
In a lot of Pacific War histories, Guam is swept aside and banished as insignificant.
How soon they forget, many might say.
End-of-WWII commemoration to be livestreamed from fantail of battleship Missouri in Hawaii
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is slated to speak Wednesday from the fantail of the battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as part of a commemoration of the end of World War II 75 years ago.
For US troops in the Pacific, the end of World War II deepened the ache for home
Donald Fosburg was off duty and lying in his bunk in the belly of the battleship USS Missouri on a steamy August night in 1945.
Who fired the final salvo of World War II? Depends on who’s calling the shots
The United States was thrust into World War II abruptly with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.
U.S. military cranking up relief efforts for stricken areas in Southeast Asia
U.S. military officials in the Pacific are cranking up humanitarian-assistance and disaster-relief missions to Southeast Asia after a powerful earthquake triggered a catastrophic tsunami along the coastlines of Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and other nations Sunday.
Vietnam: No time for aching feet
This is flat country, where a man can see for miles and where an enemy can almost make death more welcome than continued marching.