SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area's fog-shrouded coast seems tailor-made for hiding ghosts from the past. But now, a research team has pulled back the curtain on a mystery that's endured for nearly 80 ...
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- "This was some tough stuff," reflected Vern Shmidt, a 99-year-old Valley veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of a handful of veterans who walked ...
Late in World War II, American pilots believed they had already defeated Japan’s air power. Their F6F Hellcats dominated the skies, and Japanese aircraft were often slower, weaker, and flown by ...
The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that ...
NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Warhawk and Nate Down, Mariveles volcano, Bataan Peninsula, Philippines -- Admiral Yamamoto's grand scheme -- Tora Tora Tora! -- ...
Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an incomplete frame. While the horrors endured by civilians during the Pacific War are ...
A coastal fog softens the dramatic plunge where the American continent meets the Pacific. Nearly 350 miles north of San Francisco, just south of Crescent City and beyond the mouth of the Klamath River ...
World War II: The Pacific Theater takes you inside the sweeping story of the American fight against the Japanese. Taught by Professor Craig L. Symonds, a distinguished military historian at the US ...
Marines hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945. (AP/INP Pool) What happens when a retired Navy captain and a military historian walk into a bar? That’s what Capt. William Toti and Seth ...
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