Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

JAPAN’S long succession of defeats in the Pacific has had more impact on her High Command than fear of Russian participation in the war or Germany’s collapse. They are more concerned with meeting ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

The U.S. Pacific submarine fleet was all that was available in the early days of America's involvement in World War 2 and it took the fight to the Japanese with great success.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Mark Perry TWILIGHT OF THE GODS War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 By Ian W. Toll On the ...

If World War II teaches us anything, it is that navies, armies, and air forces are intertwined, but that ultimate victory depends on the control of key ground. In Papua, U.S. Lieutenant General Robert ...

OUR immediate aim in the Far East is to bring to bear against the Nipponese the huge force released by victory in Europe. We have at last created the conditions for its effective use. Our amphibious ...