IN THE first year of the war, Japanese fortifications on hundreds of Pacific islands and the immense distances of the Pacific seemed almost impassable barriers between us and Japan. That is what Japan ...

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During World War II, American submarines entered the Pacific with a torpedo that was supposed to give them a decisive ...

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 ...

In 1943, Allied forces began a long series of Pacific battles against the Japanese. Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the enemies ...

Family of Marines who fought in the Battle of Saipan, along with service members, during a wreath-laying ceremony in Susupe, Saipan, on June 15, 2024. (Lance Cpl. Ryan Little/Marine Corps) Nine days ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years, with ...

Referring to the People’s Liberation Army, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command recently reported to Congress that “we haven’t faced a threat like this since World War II.” The nature of this ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? If World War II teaches us anything, it is that navies, armies, and air forces are intertwined, but that ultimate victory depends on the ...

U.S. strikes on three boats in the Pacific highlight a shift toward treating drug trafficking as armed conflict rather than ...

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 ...