Editor's note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed ... "He was tough on us. He made us do things by ...

Eighty years after the Battle of Saipan, a collection of battlefield interviews with US soldiers has been uncovered. Their voices tell the story of one of the most brutal chapters of the war.

Usually associated with "sun, sand and snorkelling" the Pacific island of Saipan ... him to the US for prosecution" after he was accused of a conspiracy to break into United States military ...