Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were not a standard Marine platoon. Drawn from brawlers, rule-breakers, and hard cases, they ...

When Japanese soldiers invaded Capt. Ben Salomon’s battalion on the South Pacific island of Saipan on July 7, 1944, the Army dentist grabbed a rifle and began firing. On that day, Salomon gunned down ...

In 1944, LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole was in the Pacific, covering the ugly, protracted Battle of Saipan. The battle proper lasted less than a month, with American soldiers and Marines largely ...

TWO days before our troops landed on the island of Saipan, in the Marianas, the United States Navy made a rather boisterous appearance offshore. It was my good luck to be along. I was aboard one of a ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

Caption from LIFE. "One living person among hundreds of corpses in one cave was this fly-covered baby who almost smothered before soldiers found him, rushed him to hospital." Caption from LIFE. "One ...

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 days ...

Seventy years after Japanese fighters launched a suicidal "banzai" attack against U.S. forces invading Saipan, a 20-year-old college student is headed to the island to try to find the remains of 16 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Racing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...