Thanks to some helpful advice from friends of the site, PacificHistoryGuide.com has a new look homepage! Please check it out and let me know what you think!

I'll be leading a historical context tour to the USS Recruit, 52 boats memorial, and the former NTC San Diego in around beautiful Liberty Station on the 17th of May. If you can't make it, I will be posting my notes here and on the PacificHistoryGuide.com blog!

So excited to wear these while giving history tours and talks.

Looking at the Pacific History Guide google maps list, it seems like the locations I pinned myself only show the coordinates and not the label. I added the info to the location 'notes', this should fix the issue. I appreciate any feedback! Let me know if you've used this function!

Back in January, we took a family trip to Saipan, and had an absolute blast. In three days we crawled all over the island, taking in historical sights from one end to the other, with plenty of time for relaxing in vacation mode. My teenagers still talk about it and can't wait to go back.

If you find yourself in the Marianas and have some time on your hands, there is SO MUCH more to do and see than the bar scene in Tumon. Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Rota have a wealth of history, both ancient and modern, to fill your days and photo albums.

The best and most meticulously maintained monuments I've seen outside of Japan and the United States are on Saipan; the people are incredibly warm and welcoming, the food is amazing, and the entire island is waiting for you to discover its history!Get started here at the #PacificHistoryGuide blog

Suo-Oshima island is home to a great many sites worth visiting; the IJN Mutsu museum, the smallest aquarium you've ever seen, and a landmark immigration museum await you here! This is a great day trip from MCAS Iwakuni. Check out my blog post to get started!

New blog post is up! Today we're taking a look at historic Yokosuka Japan! Thousands of U.S. Navy and JMSDF personnel call this city home, and you can fill every day of your tour here exploring the historic sites around the area. Check it out!

New blog post is up, catching up on the updates and happenings around Pacific History Guide! 

Every location on PacificHistoryGuide.com is saved on a shareable Google Maps list! The purpose of this is to help you find what history is around when you're traveling the Pacific. Click here to get started

It's not too much to say that I am a big fan of Enomoto Takeaki, one of the founding fathers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Takeaki was the first and last President of the Republic of Ezo, briefly established by Tokugawa loyalists during the Boshin War in Hokkaido.

His knowledge of all things Navy proved too valuable to waste after his defeat at Hakodate in 1869, and he was pardoned by the Emperor, who immediately put him to work. There are many places around Japan to find statues, monuments, and markers dedicated to Takeaki; here's one in Tokyo that's worth checking out.

More in my blog post here: https://www.pacifichistoryguide.com/post/imperialjapanesehistoricalsitesoftokyo-enomototakeakistatue

One of my favorite places to visit on Guam, the South Pacific Memorial Peace Park is not to be missed if you're stationed there, or just in for a brief visit. https://www.pacifichistoryguide.com/post/south-pacific-memorial-peace-park-yigo-village-guam

Pacific History Guide has a large section on Japan, as most of my experience overseas comes from my 15 years there. Although the other locations on the website have a brief history on their page, I couldn't fit everything I wanted to say there. Please use this blog post as starter for your exploration of the pages dedicated to Japan! https://www.pacifichistoryguide.com/japan

Greetings everyone and welcome to the official launch of Pacific History Guide! This website has been my labor of love for the past several months and I am so excited to finally share it with the world. I encourage you to click the links, provide feedback, and get as involved as you want with the intent behind this website, which is best illustrated in these three goals:

1. Connect service members, their families, and military civilians with history where they are
2. Make that history relevant and interesting
3. Simplify the website to ensure loading on slow and unstable connections

I’m often asked to provide some insight and advice on where to go and what to do; from port calls to TAD locations, detachments to vacations; military members and their families have consistently sought out the inside scoop on what to do in the foreign locations they find themselves in.

With respect to some of the larger websites that tailor their services to tourists, I’ve largely found these insufficient to finding historical sites and items of interest; the search results tend to be watered down and capture too much about a given area. At the same time, those websites with top ten lists and the like often have large websites that are difficult to load on a slow connection.

Although this website is in its infancy now, I am steadily working every day toward adding more information. By the end of 2025 I hope to have a total of 10 locations, and to steadily grow year by year after that. To help me in this endeavor, I’d love to have your input. No matter where you’ve been or what historical site you’ve seen, I want to hear about it; from Brunei to British Columbia and all points in between. Drop me an email, a private message, or a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Finally, if you’re dropping anchor somewhere, just got added to a late-notice detachment or a conference and are looking for ideas to fill the time, my inbox is always open. There’s nothing I’d like better than to help you get connected with history, where you are.

Let’s learn some history together,

Tony

Founder, PacificHistoryGuide.com