SPECIALIST EXPERT-LED EXPEDITIONS
TO 20th CENTURY BATTLEFIELDS
IN THE PACIFIC & ASIA
Pacific war - First Indochina War - Second Indochina War
From lush tropical islands in the South Pacific to sweltering triple canopy jungle in Southeast Asia, WAR HISTORIAN BATTLEFIELD EXPEDITIONS takes you off the beaten path to some of the remotest and less traveled battlefields of the 20th century. We take you to the invasion beaches, put you in the foxholes, examine the relics of war, and hump through jungle in order to experience military history from a unique "boots-on-the-ground" experiential perspective that just cannot be obtained any other way than by being there and walking the original battlegrounds. Visiting these places is more than just sightseeing. When you experience firsthand the rugged hills, the dense fetid jungle and tropical climate of these battlefields, history comes alive. On our expeditions you will also experience the culture, customs, sights and sounds of the beautiful and vibrant countries we visit. Battlefield expeditions for a new breed of war heritage traveler and those who truly want to experience military history and walk the ground where battles were won, lost, and history made. It’s one thing to read the books, but quite another to actually walk in the footsteps of history!
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LATEST NEWS
Lest We Forget: Battle of Dien Bien Phu 70th anniversary. Walking where they fought. Nearly 70 years after Dien Bien Phu (13 March to 7 May 1954), these Palladium Pallabrousse boots echo a bygone battle. Known as “Stalingrad in the Jungle” and the “Verdun of Vietnam”, Dien Bien Phu was the largest and bloodiest battle fought in Vietnam, and the climatic battle of the First Indochina War which led to the fall of the French Empire in Southeast Asia. Dien Bien Phu is considered one of the greatest set-piece battles in all of military history.
As seen on FORGOTTEN WEAPONS! Weapons historian Ian McCollum participated in our Guadalcanal 80th anniversary expedition. If you are not already following FORGOTTEN WEAPONS on YouTube and on Instagram, you should be! Ian has released a number of videos from our Guadalcanal expedition. Check out this one from one of the most important and legendary battlefields of the Pacific War - Alligator Creek, aka "Battle of the Tenaru" (this battle was depicted in episode 1 of the HBO miniseries, The Pacific):
As seen on FORGOTTEN WEAPONS! In this video weapons historian Ian McCollum is at Cape Esperance and details the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, which the Japanese knew as an "island of death from starvation":
November 2022: We just completed VICTORY IN THE SOLOMONS, our Guadalcanal 80th anniversary expedition to the remote and WW2 heritage-rich Solomon Islands! On this expedition we had 20 participants ranging in age from 24 to 71, and traveling from USA, Canada, Japan, and France. Travel to remote historic battlefields is adventurous, challenging, and physically demanding, but we could not have asked for a better group of individuals to have undertaken this important pilgrimage. You can get a feel for the expedition and see some of what we have been getting up to for the past few weeks in this video:
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UPCOMING EXPEDITIONS
Thank you for your interest in our expeditions to Pacific War and Indochina Wars battlefields. Please contact us at [email protected] to learn about our upcoming expeditions, and be sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube. We look forward to having you travel with us on our next adventure!
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VIEWS FROM THE OLD ASIA-PACIFIC BATTLEGROUNDS
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ABOUT
We specialize in the Pacific War (WW2 Pacific & Asia), First Indochina War (French War), and Second Indochina War (Vietnam War). We travel to some of the most historically significant, yet remote and less traveled battlefields of the 20th century. Bryan T. Stefancyk, the founder of WAR HISTORIAN BATTLEFIELD EXPEDITIONS, is a Pacific War and Indochina Wars battlefield historian, and he is the grandson of a US Army combat infantry veteran of the Pacific War. He first visited the battlefields of the Pacific War in 2010 when he traveled to Okinawa for the 65th anniversary of the battle to follow in the footsteps of his then recently deceased grandfather. On this trip he accompanied a group of Battle of Okinawa veterans. Bryan is a firm believer the only way to understand and study a battle is to walk the ground. Only by experiencing the terrain and conditions firsthand by standing on the invasion beaches, humping through dense fetid jungle and up rugged kunai grass hills, sweating in the tropical heat, getting soaked by tropical rains, walking into needle-sharp “wait-a-minute” vines, crouching in the foxholes, and examining the relics of war can one truly understand these remote battlefields. He is fortunate to have walked these far-flung battlefields with veterans of the battles. In August 2010, Bryan was honored to be a guest speaker at the final reunion of the IWO JIMA SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION.
THE TEAM
Bryan T. Stefancyk
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Neal Howland
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Bryan T. Stefancyk, founder & owner of WAR HISTORIAN BATTLEFIELD EXPEDITIONS, on a knocked-out and in-situ US M3A1 Stuart Tank, Western Province, Solomon Islands. Note the battle damage visible on the forward hull; at least three Japanese 37mm anti-tank rounds struck and disabled the tank.
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