Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the strategic Indo-Pacific region ... which led the U.S. to declare war on Japan. Its visit to Hawaii now serving as a sign of the ...

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.

At War in the Pacific National Historical Park, the former battlefields, gun emplacements, trenches, and historic structures all serve as silent reminders of the bloody World War II battles that raged ...