Pacific History Guide Launch

Pacific History Guide - Official Logo

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 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,

Anthony Vincent 'Tony' Boccia