U.S. forces landed on Saipan on June 15, 1944, with two Marine divisions, the 2nd and the 4th, making the initial beach assaults and losing some 2,000 men on the first day alone.

Kuentai-USA secretary general Yukari Akatsuka studies U.S. military maps and personnel files on missing servicemembers from World War II before taking to the Okinawa jungle May 9, 2018, in an ...

One significant point about World War II that pertains to our island chain is that about 550 U.S. military ships sailed to the Marianas preparing to fight the Japanese, populated with approximately ...