Family of Marines who fought in the Battle of Saipan, along with service members, during a wreath-laying ceremony in Susupe, Saipan, on June 15, 2024. (Lance Cpl. Ryan Little/Marine Corps) Nine ...

N ine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe.

WWII Marine Pfc. Harry LeBert was laid to rest in Louisiana 80 years after his death in the Battle of Saipan. LeBert's ...

"Battle for Saipan" joins "Windtalkers" (2002, directed by John Woo) and "Hell to Eternity" (1960, directed by Phil Karlson) as movies that focus on the Allied invasion of the island.Both of those ...

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually ...

It has been nearly 80 years since the World War II Battle of Saipan but researchers have discovered the Pacific seafloor battlefield remains much as it was in 1944, including evidence of ...

The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands in 1944. The US had invaded the island in June, taking over to use it as a strategic ...

Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty ...

Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss Saipan is a relaxed, rural island in the Northern Marianas ...