A US Marines plane that went down during World War II has been discovered in the South Pacific, 80 years after it went missing. The wreckage of the Douglas SBD Dauntless was found by locals in the ...

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. (WOOD) — More than 80 years after his death, a soldier killed in World War II was laid to rest Friday morning in his hometown. Pfc. Willard H. Brinks of Grand Rapids was ...

by Jimmy Carter Since our first story appeared in Vintage Aviation News back in January 2023, the South Pacific World War II Museum in Vanuatu has experienced a vibrant journey over the past two ...

He was assigned to duty as a test pilot in Burbank, California, after three combat tours in the South Pacific. He was killed on Aug. 6, 1945, when a P-80 jet fighter he was testing crashed.

During World War II, a B-24 Liberator named “Pride O’ Pottsville” was part of the Army Air Corps famed Jolly Roger outfit in the South Pacific.A dispatch from the Fifth Air Force that ran in ...

Benefield: Graton master craftsman’s work to be exhibited in South Pacific WWII Museum. Andy Werback spent years crafting an exact replica of dry docks crucial to U.S. Naval efforts in World War II.

Students to perform concert dedicated to World War II vets in South Pacific battles Ada High School's concert will honor South Pacific WWII veterans, with lights symbolizing fallen Marines.

“We were fighting two wars, one in Europe the other in the South Pacific,” World War II veteran Doug Starr said. Starr is now 99 years old and served two years in the South Pacific on a ...

Each year, more than 20 people are killed or seriously hurt after one of the thousands of World War II bombs left by the U.S. and Japan explodes. ... an island in the South Pacific Ocean.

In 1949, with Americans optimistic about a new era of peace and prosperity in the aftermath of World War II, "South Pacific" premiered on Broadway.

Based on "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener The plot of South Pacific centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II who falls in love with a ...

World War II reminiscences have faded, and the words “South Pacific” now resonate more as a Broadway musical title than a geographic locator. For U.S. national security, this needs to change ...