The two most important battles of World War II were fought within nine days of each other 75 years ago. The first, on June 6, 1944, was D-Day, the allied invasion of German occupied France on the ...

Three days. That's how long military planners thought two U.S. Marine divisions and a U.S. Army infantry division would require to defeat Japanese forces holding the Pacific island of Saipan, in the ...

On Saipan, nature and the bulldozer have all but covered the four-year-old litter of battle. But last week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines’ General Holland M. Smith ...

On June 15, 1944, a massive U.S. invasion fleet stormed the beaches of Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Archaeologists surveying the waters off Saipan in the Mariana Islands have so far ...

The Veterans’ Oral History Program at the Oldham County History Center is a source of incredible stories of veterans and their heroic deeds in defense of our country. The following is Part 2 of an ...

American flag waving in clear sky american flag tile / Getty Images The Marines rushed ashore from their amphibious tanks under withering fire. Some were veterans of earlier amphibious attacks. For ...

I had the opportunity to actually spend about three weeks on Saipan while doing some consulting work for Micronesian Telephone Co. I got to visit and explore the whole island, including the invasion ...

It’s a fair bet that neither the name nor the facts of the military campaign whose story unfolds in this spellbinding film is likely to sound familiar to a television audience today. Smithsonian ...