In the rugged hills outside the Queensland coastal city of Townsville, Japanese and Australian artillery crews fired in ...

Iwo Jima was returned to Japanese hands in 1968. Today, the tiny island (just eight square miles) is a military base.

Robert Worth road-tripped from New Jersey to California and enlisted in the Marines after Pearl Harbor. He saw the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. He died in Omaha Aug. 14, at ...

Join me on an island-hopping adventure to breathtaking islands near New York City, and understand why you should take the time to do so yourself.

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