McCain and was commander of the Pacific Theater during the Vietnam War, when Jack's father, now Arizona Sen.

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The answer to this question will undoubtedly shape the geostrategic environment of the Asia-Pacific theater in the coming decades.

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Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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He arrived in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and served in New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa before being among the first American troops to enter Japan after the surrender.

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Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.

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Pacific start, panning cameras are following the crowd of journalists filing in to the California Theater in San Jose.

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