For the Japanese, keeping Saipan was crucial in stopping the American advance. In what became known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea, American and Japanese carriers fought a two-day sea and air ...

Usually associated with "sun, sand and snorkelling" the Pacific island of Saipan was a surprising location for the culmination of Julian Assange's long legal battle with the USA. But the "string ...

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.

Since the Japanese controlled nearly every island between the Philippines and Hawaii in 1942, getting to the Philippines meant seizing many of those islands, which included Guadalcanal ...

During World War II, more than 50,000 people, including civilians, died on Saipan--the site of the gruesome Battle of Saipan in 1944. War is truly cruel. Seventy-eight years have passed since the ...

A Blair County man who lost his life in the Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized by the nonprofit Stories Behind the ...

Joesphy was a military war correspondent during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 ... and included audio from Saipan, Guam and Okinawa as well as Iwo Jima. Many of the recordings in the collection ...

For the Japanese, keeping Saipan was crucial in stopping the American advance. In what became known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea, American and Japanese carriers fought a two-day sea and air ...