The fall of Singapore, the supposedly impregnable fortress, to Imperial Japanese forces in 1942 was possibly the worst defeat of British arms in history; was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to blame?

A photo essay of the Fort Canning Museum and Memories at the Old Ford Factory Museum in Singapore that preserve the city’s World War II history.

War in the Pacific Skies, by Charlie and Ann Cooper, features the aviation art of Jack Fellows as it tells the story of the fights in the skies wherever Allied and Japanese aircraft clashed in World War II.

This article focuses on Japanese intelligence service successes during World War II, including the amazingly simple method they employed to break US Army Air Force (USAAF) codes that were used in Burma and China.

The Philippine Scouts are often ‘forgotten soliders’ of WW2, although men of their unit received the first three U.S. Army Medals of Honor in that war. A new documentary tells their story.

‘The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War,’ by William B. Hopkins focuses on Allied strategy, political aspects, and interesting profiles and insights on the key Allied leaders, both military and civilian.

Stephen Harding’s fascinating new book, Voyage to Oblivion, examines an intriguing incident that took place on the same morning as the Pearl Harbor attack.

The carrier USS Robin mysteriously appeared in the South Pacific in 1943—but there was no such ship in the U.S. Navy!

James D. Hornfischer’s Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal brings to vivid life the naval battles that, in the end, decided the outcome of the Guadalcanal campaign.

An animated map of Japanese and Allied military operations in Asia and the Pacific, 1944–1945, with links to associated online articles.

A book review of American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann, the American officer who raised a guerrilla army of over 22,000 men in the Philippines during WWII, calls it “one of the finest military biographies I have read.”

Storm Over the Pacific is a fast-paced and easy game on a momentous subject that applies many good ideas from World War 2: Time of Wrath and some of that game’s faults, as well.

Seventeen B-25 Mitchell bombers gathered at the National Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, during April 2010 to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the carrier-based raid on Japan led by Lt. Col. James ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle in 1942.

John Tiller’s Naval Campaigns: Midway introduces air combat to the series, and this review finds the game challenging and engrossing but with some problems over ship formation and aircraft control and mission planning.

Links to an animated map of military operations in the Pacific, 1944–1945, and accompanying articles.

Retired U.S. Marine captain Dale Dye is the man Hollywood has called on to make sure their military facts are straight and combat scenes realistic in movies and television productions from “The Last of the Mohicans” to “The Pacific.”