During World War II, more than 50,000 people, including civilians, died on Saipan--the site of the gruesome Battle of Saipan in 1944. War is truly cruel. Seventy-eight years have passed since the ...

It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes. On Saipan, the Marines and army faced an enemy well dug-in and ...

invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...

World War II brought many changes to Harvard ... Still in the spring of '44, Morison took part in the Saipan and Guam landings, as an assistant was on hand for D-Day. Another assistant observed ...

(CBS) -- The family of a U.S. Marine from downstate Decatur who served in World War II has been reunited with ... wounds he ...