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The Gateway to Japan's Heartland: The Untold Story of Why Saipan Was the True Turning Point of the Pacific War

As the world focused on Normandy in 1944, a less famous but equally pivotal battle was brewing for the island of Saipan, a ...
Chicago Tribune

In 1944, a Japanese soldier carried a flag into battle. Decades later, New Trier students returned it to his brother.

In 1944, 21-year-old Tokichi Shimizu, a Japanese soldier stationed on the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, headed into battle. The young man carried with him a Japanese flag from his family ...
The Providence Journal

FLASHBACK: When Japanese hit U.S. bomber in 1944, Providence man was lost; pilot went on to become president

This story originally appeared in the paper June 9, 1991. A humid Pacific morning, Sept. 2, 1944. A three-man Navy bomber moves in on a Japanese radio installation on the island of Chichi Jima, 600 ...