Investing in the Future of the Pacific: U.S. Aid Continues to Face WWII Outburst Risks – U.S. Department of State
Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, Pacific island nations still face the daunting challenge of post-war impacts: unexploded ordnance (UXO) and derelict ordnance litter the vast expanse of the region. At the height of World War II, from 1941 to 1945, military forces from the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand …