In the opening hours of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, an American Patrol Plane as unable to transmit the location of the Japanese fleet.   More »

The United States 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine divisions faced their sternest trials by fire in the month long battle to take the island of Iwo Jima.   More »

An American task force caught the Japanese sleeping at Guadalcanal, but the enemy quickly sprang into action to repel the invasion.   More »

The first naval battle of Savo Island gave the U.S. Navy its worst defeat.   More »

The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair proved a scourge of Japanese aircraft in the Pacific.   More »

On May 11, 1945, the destroyer USS Hugh W. Hadley survived a series of Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa but was shattered in the process.   More »

The American 193rd Tank Battalion played a pivotal role in the capture of Makin in the Pacific in 1943.   More »

Two generals, one in the U.S. Marine Corps and the other in the Army, were embroiled in a controversy that began during the effort to capture Saipan.   More »

The 4th Marine Division experienced enemy action for the first time during the fight for the Japanese-held islands of Roi and Namur in the Marshall’s.   More »

Eight-square-mile Iwo Jima became the focus for some of the most intense fighting of World War II.   More »