On August 7, 1942, Japanese ace Saburo Sakai flew into one of the most brutal battles of his career over the Solomon Islands.

A huge forest fire near Bordeaux in southwestern France has revealed World War II shells in the village of Le Porge, where all residents returned to their homes on Monday after days of demining ...

Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero aircraft prepare for takeoff at Rabaul, New Britain Island (then part of Australia and Papua New Guinea), sometime between August and November 1942.

On March 10, 1942, a German military aircraft equipped with special cameras took off from an air base outside Nikolaev, Ukraine. The nine-hour reconnaissance flight of the Junkers Ju 88 covered more ...

Rabaul was one of Australia’s most important forward bases in the Pacific, but in January 1942 it was badly exposed. The defenders had outdated anti-aircraft guns, limited ammunition, few trained men, ...

13 Rabaul Street, Lithgow is a 2 bedroom house. What are the key property features of 13 Rabaul Street, Lithgow? To enquire about specific property features for 13 Rabaul Street, Lithgow, contact the ...

On Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific.

In the bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the “Bougainville Express.” Last week the ...

There are a lot of special-edition bottles that come out every year, and most of them change up the packaging but not the actual liquid inside. Therefore, most of these releases are not necessarily ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Can't wait to see who wins. By Tony Maglio On the brin k of World War III, let’s look back at World War II. In addition to Hanks, the WWII series is executive produced by Gary Goetzman and ...