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 ...
but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...
It was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ... to "Sulfur Island." It is part of the Bonin Islands, which is made up ...
A Japanese helicopter destroyer, the Kaga, which is undergoing conversion into the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II ... maps aircraft carrier movements in the strategic Indo ...
The tiny, pork-chop-shaped atoll almost created a diplomatic crisis during World War II, served in the space ... The spectacular event put Canton Island on the map—but its spotlight didn ...