The Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944.

The Battle of Saipan, which was fought June 15 to July 9, 1944, during World War II, saw U.S. forces capture the island, allowing them to use it as a base to launch direct attacks on Japan.

With Saipan’s airfields soon to be operational (as well as those of Tinian and Guam, which the Americans would surely get in due course) and with Japanese air power having been all but …

Nov 17, 2009 · The brutal three-week Battle of Saipan resulted in more than 3,000 U.S. deaths and over 13,000 wounded. For their part, the Japanese lost at least 27,000 soldiers, by some …

Two days later on July 9, 1944, Saipan was declared secure, but the horror didn’t end there. In the days that followed, Marines watched helplessly as hundreds of Japanese civilians …

The operation plan for Saipan , code-named Forager, called for an assault on the western side of the is -land, with the 2d Marine Division on the left and the 4th Marine Divi-sion on the right.

On June 15, 1944, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of this strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. could launch its …