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 ...
PEARL HARBOR -- The destruction of 300 enemy planes in a furious aerial engagement over the Marianas revealed today that powerful American and Japanese task forces were prowling the Pacific within ...
On Aug. 9, 1944, the flag ship USS Indianapolis left port in Saipan heading to Apra Harbor. The island of Tinian had been secured the previous week, and the Battle of Guam was wrapping up. The ...
Alan Parker was still a boy, only 14 years old, when his older brother’s plane went missing over Saipan in 1944. Ensign Paul A. Parker, a Navy pilot who served with Fighter Squadron 25 aboard the USS ...
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