As the world focused on Normandy in 1944, a less famous but equally pivotal battle was brewing for the island of Saipan, a ...
In 1944, LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole was in the Pacific, covering the ugly, protracted Battle of Saipan. The battle proper lasted less than a month, with American soldiers and Marines largely ...
The tiny island where Julian Assange pleaded guilty to one count of espionage has a dark and bloody history which involved the deaths of thousands during a brutal battle in World War II between ...
When U.S. forces came to Saipan on June 15, 1944, the island’s strategic significance was clear: at just about 1,500 miles from Tokyo, it could serve as a staging ground for a full-on American attack ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Racing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of ...
The American invasion of the Japanese stronghold of Saipan in the western Pacific was an incredibly brutal battle, claiming 55,000 soldiers' and civilians' lives in just over three weeks in the summer ...