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 ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

SAIPAN--More than 75 years after the bloody battle fought here between Japanese troops and U.S. forces, a race has begun to preserve the many vessels and aircraft resting on the ocean floor.

A plane carrying Julian Assange from the U.K. landed in Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, but the Wikileaks founder is scheduled ...