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.

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 ...

FDR announces that, by Executive Order, Pacific Coast Japanese Americans will be relocated to internment camps. During the course of the war, over 17,000 Japanese Americans volunteer and fight for ...