Faced with the nightmare of a direct assault on the heavily fortified Japanese stronghold of Rabaul, U.S. strategists devised ...

Ingalls Shipbuilding christened the U.S. Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship, the future USS Bougainville (LHA 8), during dockside ceremonies at the Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard Saturday morning.

A tiny Pacific island, with its natural beauty and bitter history of war, is on the brink of becoming the world's newest independent country, as per a report. Bougainville, a part of Papua New Guinea, ...

Bougainville – and its resources – could very well end up in the middle of a battle between China and the U.S. over influence in the new nation, and thus in the region. A local looking for gold on the ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - Saturday morning, Ingalls Shipbuilding held a christening ceremony for the USS Bougainville, an amphibious assault ship. With a shattered champagne bottle, the ship is now ...

Germany, Australia, Japan, the U.S., and Papua New Guinea colonized and settled Bougainville Island because of its resources and placement in the Southwest Pacific. The island is named after Louis de ...

The Bougainville Peace Agreement, signed in August 2001 after extensive consultation and negotiation, has stood the test of time. There has been no return to conflict, and many of the agreement’s most ...

Anna-Karina Hermkens receives funding from the Australian Research Council to follow and analyse Bougainville's journey towards independence. Bougainville, an autonomous archipelago currently part of ...