The costly victory on Saipan cost over 16,000 American casualties but provided the key to ending the war, as engineers rushed ...
Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years ...
After the brutal Battle of Saipan was declared over, one Japanese officer, Captain Sakae Oba, led a band of holdout soldiers ...
SAIPAN – It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back ...
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists - ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It ...