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 ...

I was well acquainted with Rabaul long before I went there. As a space shuttle astronaut in the 1990s, I had looked down from Earth orbit on the active volcanoes at this Papua New Guinea site on the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Step aboard B-25 Mitchell SNAFU (41-30054) for its last daring raid on Rabaul, South Pacific, and see if you could survive the extreme danger faced by the crew on a mission that tested courage, skill, ...

Rabaul and the Psychological Collapse of Japanese Soldiers in World War II examines the devastating impact of the American island-hopping strategy on the Japanese garrison at Rabaul. Cut off from ...

On Sunday General MacArthur said: “If God stays with me I may get some remarkable results.” By Thursday, the results tabulated, he said: “Almighty God blessed our arms.” Between the prayer and the ...