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King-Hinds applauds more than $7.1 million in VA funding for veterans cemeteries on Tinian and Rota Newsbreak

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Pacific Southwest wetland projects get boost from investment by US Environmental Protection Agency Maui Now

Effort includes $467,075 coming to Hawai'i for expansion of community stewardship at restored wetland sites, increasing coordination among agencies, landowners and organizations working on wetland restoration and reducing regulatory barriers for wetland restoration practitioners.

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How the Pacific War Changed Global Warfare Worldhistory

The Pacific War (1941-45) contributed many lasting innovations and developments to global warfare. This theatre of the Second World War witnessed the end of battleships as the primary mode of naval warfare, replacing them with aircraft carriers that could send their planes to engage an unseen enemy many miles distant. Amphibious warfare was perfected to a high degree of efficiency, as was the integration of large-scale multiservice operations and the refinement of military logistics on a massive scale. Specialised weapons development such as flamethrowers, armoured landing vehicles, and napalm made warfare even more deadly and brutal. Tens of thousands of civilians died in single battles or bombing campaigns, numbers which grew even larger and more incomprehensible with the use of nuclear weapons, a development that still haunts humanity today.

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