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 ...

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 ...

Bell witnessed the invasions of Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu and Iwo Jima from the ship's deck, as well as the naval battle of the Philippine Sea (also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot"?).

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 Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers ...

During World War II, more than 50,000 people, including civilians, died on Saipan--the site of the gruesome Battle of Saipan in 1944. War is truly cruel. Seventy-eight years have passed since the ...