The Japanese presented a tenacious, unrelenting foe to U.S. and Allied servicemen who battled with them during an island-hopping campaign across the Pacific. Images from that vicious campaign have ...

Overgrown, weatherworn evidence of the “island-hopping” campaign of World War II, when U.S. forces leapfrogged across the Pacific, battling the Empire of Japan for strategic advantage on ...

During World War II’s island-hopping campaign, soldiers, Marines, and sailors had to annihilate Japanese resistance on a series of progressively better-fortified islands.

20 years before World war II, Marine Lt. Col. Earl Ellis was remarkably prescient in predicting how Marines would fight in the Pacific Check out our latest YouTube videos. Watch here 🎥 ...

FORT McCOY -- World War II veteran Joseph P. Phillips thought he might see some hula girls when he headed for service in the island hopping campaign in the Pacific Theatre of Operation.

Bodies of US WW2 troops found on Pacific island. ... its "island-hopping" campaign against the Japanese empire. The Pentagon had previously deemed the men buried on Tarawa's Betio Island to ...

The Pacific Theater of World War II was a high-stakes naval engagement notable for its island-hopping and amphibious nature. Both belligerents, Imperial Japan and the United States, fielded ...