In 1944, LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole was in the Pacific, covering the ugly, protracted Battle of Saipan. The battle proper lasted less than a month, with American soldiers and Marines largely ...
When Japanese soldiers invaded Capt. Ben Salomon’s battalion on the South Pacific island of Saipan on July 7, 1944, the Army dentist grabbed a rifle and began firing. On that day, Salomon gunned down ...
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 ...
Seventy years after Japanese fighters launched a suicidal "banzai" attack against U.S. forces invading Saipan, a 20-year-old college student is headed to the island to try to find the remains of 16 ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Racing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of ...
REPORTER AT LARGE about a Navy task force attacking Saipan. Blow for blow description of operations. When we watch the actor’s stunts, we are watching someone defy death, over and over again. It’s ...
On Aug. 9, 1944, the flag ship USS Indianapolis left port in Saipan heading to Apra Harbor. The island of Tinian had been secured the previous week, and the Battle of Guam was wrapping up. The ...
2020-01-19T18:45:28-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/eab/20200119191329003_hd.jpgHistorians James Holland and Richard Frank discussed two grim events that took ...
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