An Australian Navy minehunter has found the lost wreck of a suspected Japanese World War Two submarine off the South Pacific outpost of Rabaul, Australian defense officials said Friday. Oct. 28 ...

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Thousands of American service members were based on the Pacific island of New Guinea during World War II. In 1942, Japan invaded the town of Rabaul in what's now Papua ...

The Second World War ended 73 years ago, but history can feel very much alive in this corner of the South Pacific. Invaded and used as a Japanese military base in 1942, the Bay of Rabaul, on the ...

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the capture of Rabaul by Japanese forces on the Island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea during World War II.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

During the Second World War, in 1942, Japan invaded Rabaul, in New Guinea, then a part of Australia. Over a thousand Australians died. Why have we forgotten this?

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 ...

World War II hobbyist ... to a remote South Pacific island jungle where their uncle ... Hoping to include the Zanger incident in his book “Siege of Rabaul,” Sakaida in 1997 discovered ...

More than 70 Years Later, Rabaul’s Aerial Battleground Is Still Haunting The “Japanese Gibraltar” was the scene of desperate fighting in the fall of 1943.

WWII commando reveals secrets of Pacific coastwatcher ... Mr Burrowes was assigned to the mountains above the main Japanese base at Rabaul in 1943, ... Solomon Islands targets WWII tourism market.

Over the course of three days, students studied and analyzed the U.S. military’s strategy in the Pacific, including the Solomon Islands campaign, the Battle of Guadalcanal and the fall of Rabaul ...

Japanese WW2 submarine wreck found in Pacific. By Reuters. October 28, 2011 10:07 AM UTC Updated ago The stern ... Rabaul, on the northern tip of the island of New Britain, ...