Securing Saipan was of critical importance to the U.S.; its airfields would put the Army Air ... the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II ...

The KC-130J Super Hercules tanker with 1st Marine Air ... of the battle. The Marines are experimenting with new ways of integrating airpower and covering the vast distances of the Pacific for ...

In the largest naval battle of the Pacific War, American forces destroy much of the remaining Japanese navy. The first kamikaze air attacks occur during this battle. November: British forces in ...

Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk in battle in World War ... year-old cold case Bodies of US WW2 troops found on Pacific island Searching for Burma's ...

Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

His courage in battle brought him ... Perry Dahl, an Army Air Forces fighter pilot who shot down nine enemy aircraft in the Pacific during World War II while surviving emergency landings, a ...