The Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 became the largest naval battle in history. Japanese forces attempted a complex plan to trap and destroy the U.S. invasion fleet in the Philippines. Instead, the ...
The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing. Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft call ...
Two boats carrying 21 people capsized off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and killing two, officials ...
As the fighting on Saipan intensified, individual acts of courage began to emerge across the battlefield. Among the soldiers ...