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 ...

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 ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in ... first battle addressed is the Battle of the Coral Sea, beginning Part One with a description of the ...

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 ...

A US military cargo plane returned to a World War II airstrip ... Indo-Pacific Command press release. The Peleliu airstrip, also known as the Sledge runway, was the scene of the 1944 Battle ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, ...

The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles ... Theatre of World War II. As with Band of Brothers, each episode opens with ...

He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific ... in "Masters of the Air," starring Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan. He describes the many challenges of the Battle of Okinawa as ...