In 1942, the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific, began.
Many returned home after the war in Europe ended, though the war in the Pacific was still raging.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
He had served in the navy in the second world war, and saw action in the Pacific.
Mr Morales was speaking on Bolivia's "Day of the Sea", when it commemorates its defeat by Chile in the 19th Century War of the Pacific.
Now, by going to war against Spain in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and by establishing what it thought of as a stepping-stone to the China market, the United States had abandoned its own splendid isolation and thrown itself into the worldwide struggle.
He talked about his long ties to the region, including his father's service in World War II flying B-25 bombers in the South Pacific, and his own service in Vietnam with his brother.
Spread spectrum was first used by the allies in the Pacific campaigns of the second world war, where it foiled Japanese attempts to jam radio-controlled torpedoes.
The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
In the 1879-84 War of the Pacific, Chile won control of mineral-rich land once held by Peru and Bolivia, and the outcome left Bolivia landlocked.
Previously, Mr Dower mapped the political topography of Japan in the years leading up to, during and after the Pacific war through the eyes of Shigeru Yoshida, who became prime minister during the allied occupation.
Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
We have not been focused on it sufficiently over the course of the last decade and so that, as we end the wars in Iraq and wind down the war in Afghanistan, we are redirecting a lot of our diplomatic attention to the Asia-Pacific.
During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific.
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When he was about 11 years old, his paternal grandfather, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, shared memories from his service in the Pacific.
Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago.
Bolivia also peacefully disputes access to the Pacific Ocean since losing its coast after a war with Chile in the 19th Century.
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