invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...

A group of World War II veterans will make their final journey back to Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to mark the 80th anniversary of these historic battles. Seven veterans will participate in the ...

"We're losing our WWII veterans daily, and with them, I fear we're also losing the hard-earned lessons they fought valiantly to teach us. Our Pacific War veterans, in particular, remind us that ...

At the height of the Pacific War ... campaigns staged by Japan during the war were also marked by various kinds of foolhardiness. Japanese wartime leaders never made a cool-headed decision ...