The US considered invading Japanese-occupied Taiwan in World War II. Top US commanders decided it would be a high-casualty nightmare. Chinese invaders today could face similar challenges. The US once ...

In spring 1945, the US island-hopping campaign was drawing closer to the Japanese mainland. US commanders were thinking about an invasion of Japanese itself, and invading Okinawa was seen as a prelude ...

He was there at the start of D-Day, the biggest military invasion of all time. And he was there at the start of the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II.

Few units hold the distinction to have fought an enemy of the United States on U.S. soil. The 7th Infantry Division is one of those few. During World War II, the United States experienced something ...

The Northampton County Detachment No. 298 Marine Corps League will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 1, at 1621 Lehigh Street in Easton. The meeting date, April 1, is the anniversary of the invasion of ...

Less than two weeks after the end of the Iwo Jima battle the U.S. Navy had assembled the greatest invasion armada ever to operate in the Pacific: 1,400 ships and up to 100,000 soldiers and marines of ...

All the practice in the world couldn't shake the fear. It wasn't a fear of dying that shook Bill Wellman 60 years ago this morning as he and the 11 fellow technicians of the 3rd Amphibious Force ...