War in the Pacific

Long after Captain Oba Sakae had surrendered to the American forces on Saipan, a paratrooper stayed behind several more months...

A former Imperial Army soldier has vowed to keep coming back to Saipan to pray for those who perished in...

Huddled together in a cramped cave during the Battle of Saipan, they wept to slake their thirst.  In an interview...

It was one dinner she couldn’t forget, and not because the meal itself was extraordinary. It was their last time to eat together...

This photo hangs on the wall in the American Memorial Park museum on Saipan. A photograph of a Marine carrying...

THE smell of death was everywhere as bodies littered the beaches of Saipan on June 15, 1944. Major Richard T....

The Spanish-American War, which partitioned the Marianas between the United States and Germany, and World War I, which gave the Northern Mariana Islands...

World War II B-29 navigator Raymond "Hap" Halloran, who died in Menlo Park on June 7, 2011, was based at...

FREEDOM comes at a cost. So said U.S. Marine Corps Ret. Lt. General Lawrence Snowden in an interview with this...