How Germany brought the fighting of World War II to Antarctica
With the exception of u-boats, the German navy doesn’t get a lot of attention for its role during World War II, but the Kriegsmarine brought the war to the most…
Military family brings spirit of Pacific Islander culture to awestruck audiences
The deep hollow rumble of drums invites dancers’ heartbeats to follow the same rhythm as their bodies draw elegant and gentle moves into the air that embraces them with the…
American airmen were rescued by cannibal headhunters during World War II
In the 1940s, the islands of the Pacific Ocean were a lot more wild than they are today. Nowhere was this more true than on the island of Borneo. At…
A rogue Soviet submarine might have been destroyed trying to start World War III
In March 1968, one of the Soviet Union’s most powerful vessels, a diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine carrying one megaton nuclear weapons, suddenly sank in the Pacific Ocean. K-129 was on…
The time Special Forces combat divers recovered 26 Americans from the floor of the Pacific Ocean
One of the first-ever Special Forces underwater operations wasn’t targeted against an enemy. Rather, it was to assist in the search and recovery of 26 Americans who had perished in a freak aircraft collision.
On March 7, 1958, a United States…
Here’s what happened to the F-35 that mysteriously disappeared
The F-35 that went missing in April 2019 crashed after the pilot lost his spatial awareness and slammed the fighter into the Pacific Ocean at almost 700 mph, the Japanese defense ministry said June 10, 2019, according to multiple reports.
A Ja…
US calls off search for F-35 that disappeared in the Pacific
The US military announced it is calling off its search for an F-35 stealth fighter that disappeared in the Pacific this time last month.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-35A Joint Strike Fighter piloted by Maj. Akinori Hosomi mysteriou…
Japan’s F-35 fleet reportedly made 7 emergency landings before that crash
Five of Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s F-35 jets reportedly made seven emergency landings prior to a crash somewhere in the Pacific Ocean last week, the Ministry of Defense said,
Wreckage of Japanese F-35 found; pilot still missing
Search and rescue teams found wreckage belonging to a Japanese Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter that disappeared on April 9, 2019, over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, a military spokesman said on April, 10, 2019.
The pilot of t…
How this storied Marine raid came back to bite America
The Raid on Makin Island is one of those operations that Marines point to with pride. The Marine Raiders that carried it out were among the best of the best. It even became the subject of a 1943 movie, Gung Ho!, starring Randolph Scott and …