-The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly. -Facing a fanatical defense, ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: One of the most controversial decisions in history was President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Some argue ...

The Manhattan Project to develop the bombs was one of the greatest scientific, technological, and logistical achievements in history. The bombs ended the war and saved millions of lives of combatants ...

Few units hold the distinction to have fought an enemy of the United States on U.S. soil. The 7th Infantry Division is one of those few. During World War II, the United States experienced something ...

Ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, American forces had been on the offensive, moving across the central and south Pacific. Step by step, island by island, they had pushed Japanese forces ...

The atomic bombs that ended World War II killed — by some estimates — more than 200,000 people. In the decades since 1945, there has been a revisionist debate over the decision to drop the bombs. Did ...