Hidden stories from the vast Pacific campaign that rarely make the history books.
6 factsThe Navajo language proved so complex that Japanese codebreakers never cracked it, and Code Talkers could encode and transmit messages in minutes versus hours for machines.
The Japanese garrison on Iwo Jima spent months building 11 miles of interconnected tunnels and bunkers inside the volcanic rock, creating an underground fortress with electricity a...
A Japanese intelligence officer continued fighting World War II in the Philippine jungle for 29 years, refusing to believe the war had ended.
A Japanese captain led a guerrilla band on Saipan for 512 days after the island was declared secure, conducting raids and evading 40,000 American troops.
Three months after Pearl Harbor, nervous American gunners fired 1,400 anti-aircraft rounds at phantom targets over Los Angeles, causing widespread panic.
After PT-109 was sunk, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy carved a rescue message on a coconut shell and gave it to two indigenous scouts, who paddled through Japanese waters to deliver it...