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 ...
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The Pacific War: Brutal fighting across the world’s largest battlefield
Spanning from 1941 to 1945, the Pacific War was a vast and brutal theater of World War II, pitting Allied forces against Imperial Japan across oceans and islands. We chart its course from the surprise ...
Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint assaults on a Japanese-held island.
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 ...
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