The burial, with full military honors for World War II veteran Helmut Fred Behlert, is a homecoming that almost didn't happen ...

When Japanese soldiers invaded Capt. Ben Salomon’s battalion on the South Pacific island of Saipan on July 7, 1944, the Army dentist grabbed a rifle and began firing. On that day, Salomon gunned down ...

In 1944, LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole was in the Pacific, covering the ugly, protracted Battle of Saipan. The battle proper lasted less than a month, with American soldiers and Marines largely ...

TWO days before our troops landed on the island of Saipan, in the Marianas, the United States Navy made a rather boisterous appearance offshore. It was my good luck to be along. I was aboard one of a ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – One of the bloodiest attacks in the Pacific during World War II is being remembered by the dwindling number of American veterans who survived the Japanese onslaught 70 years ...

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 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Racing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of ...

On June 17, 1944, Japanese armor launched one of the largest tank attacks of the Pacific War against the Marine beachhead on ...

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 ...