Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...

July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy, an important precursor to the Pacific War. Oshima Hiroshi was the Japanese ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal in February 1943. The Japanese were placed on the ...

In fact, getting US troops to take the Imperial Japanese Army seriously was more difficult than some histories of the Pacific war would suggest. The Army research program that almost wasn't The ...

Japan time, opening the Pacific War, which lasted more than three years and eight months. A year after the 1931 Mukden Incident, which marked the beginning of Tokyo’s invasion of China ...