This is another episode from my "Would You Survive" series, featuring a B-25 Mitchell bomber from World War II. This is B-25 Bomber SNAFU (41-30054) and it's final raid to Rabaul in the South Pacific.

Papua New Guinea’s 2.5 million Catholics will know by Friday when their first saint will be cannonised by Pope Leo XIV.

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This offensive targeted Rabaul, a heavily fortified Japanese stronghold, to support the Allied invasion of Bougainville. The mission aimed to divert Japanese forces and test the effectiveness of ...

Mount Tavurvur, which destroyed the town of Rabaul when it erupted simultaneously with nearby Mount Vulcan in 1994, rumbled to life early this morning on the tip of the remote island of New Britain.

But the real importances of the Bougainville blow were two: 1) it was a necessary preliminary to a necessity—the taking of Rabaul; and 2) it goaded the Japanese into risking serious naval and ...

Between the prayer and the thanksgiving, the U.S. Fifth Air Force had scraped together enough aircraft to dump 350 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Japan’s Southwest Pacific air-sea bastion. The ...

So, when my husband and his brother, who grew up in Rabaul, Kavieng and Port Moresby in the 1970s, regale me with colourful memories of playing in the ruins of WW2 battlements and tunnels I am ...