Securing Saipan was of critical importance to the ... Offshore the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Navy waged the largest naval battle in the history of warfare. The Battle of Leyte Gulf destroyed ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944 ... The U.S. Navy defeats the Japanese Navy in the largest naval battle in history. American servicemen witness Japanese suicide attackers, kamikazes, for the ...

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

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering the battles of Peleliu, Okinawa and Saipan, along with two books on ...

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 ...