To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

When people think of World War II Marines, they probably think of John Basilone, "Pappy" Boyington or Chesty Puller. It's unlikely anyone thinks about Earl Hancock "Pete" Ellis.

Across the Pacific, every battle and every skirmish had led to this moment. A colossal US armada made up of 1,500 ships and a ...

A Marine in the Pacific during WWII, part of the footage digitally restored to 4K resolution for "Apocalpyse '45." (Screenshot, "Apocalypse '45") Ittsei Nakagawa, a survivor of the Hiroshima ...

Before he passed in 2015, I interviewed him for my bestselling book "Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II," written with historian Adam Makos.

Caesar was one of the dogs who made up the very first Marine Dog Platoon attached to the Second Marine Raider Regiment and deployed to Bougainville in the fall of 1943.

World War II veteran Gene Morgan spent a good deal of his youth in the desert, moving from Long Beach to Palm Springs with his mom, Ferol Morgan, in 1937.

Stunning color photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training to fly in lightweight gliders designed to help them gain the upper hand in the brutal Pacific War - but which were never ...

A page of out of the diary of 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Thomas Jones featuring a photo of his high school sweetheart, Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, on display at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is considering new sites for stockpiling equipment in the West Pacific to harden military supply ...