The Saipan closure brings the curtain down on an extraordinary act within the long-running DFS story. For DFS not only ...

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Saipan, Tinian, Tarawa, and Peleliu. The islands would provide runways for US aircraft and deny them to Japan. Rather than strike directly at Luzon, Army and Navy planners decided first to capture ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers common questions readers may have about the air raids conducted by the United States across ... the U.S. military captured Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands ...

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...

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 ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl ... For the Japanese, keeping Saipan was crucial in stopping the American advance. In what became known as the Battle of the Philippine ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...