Marine pilot Robert M. Hanson became one of the most feared Allied fliers in the Pacific while flying the F4U Corsair against ...

While Kokoda continues to loom large in the minds of Australians, Rabaul hardly resonates. But relatives of the nearly 2,000 Australian soldiers and civilians who were left behind when Japan invaded ...

Rabaul was one of Japan’s most powerful bases in the South Pacific, packed with troops, airfields, tunnels, artillery, and ...

On a plain of barren pumice overlooked by an active volcano, Albert Koni points to the site of his childhood home. It's right here where he's standing, but 7 metres down. "Everything is under the ...

Cmdr. Joseph C. Clifton passes out cigars on board the aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3), in celebration of a successful air attack on Rabaul, 5 November 1943. (National Archives) With a face weathered ...

THESE remarkable pictures show the extraordinary daily routine of people living beneath three active volcanoes in a Papua New Guinea town covered in ash. Rabaul in Papua New Guinea was destroyed ...

On Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific.

In the bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the “Bougainville Express.” Last week the ...

In September 1994, Rabaul volcano on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain erupted. "The death toll could have been many thousands, because about 75 percent of the houses collapsed," said Dr.