July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.

July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.

The war powers of neither army nor navy were subject to control by any other governmental body. Naval Analysis Division, United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Campaigns of the Pacific War ...

At War in the Pacific National Historical Park, the former battlefields, gun emplacements, trenches, and historic structures all serve as silent reminders of the bloody World War II battles that raged ...

Brands said the United States is not prepared for a conflict in the western Pacific, let alone a multi-theater global war, but that the country and its allies could effectively deal with China ...

One of the most enduring images of World War II remains the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Iwo Jima. Captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on ...