World War II
Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan Sidebar: Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith Sidebar: The 2d Marine Division Sidebar: The 4th Marine Division Sidebar: The Army 27th Infantry Division D+1-D+2, 16–17 June Sidebar: Major General Harry Schmidt Sidebar: Major General...
After intensive training, it shipped out on 13 January 1944, and in 13 short months made four major assault landings: Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, suffering over 17,...
1. Part 1Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan Sidebar: Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith Sidebar: The 2d Marine Division Sidebar: The 4th Marine Division Sidebar: The Army 27t...
4. Part 4The end of the saga of Nafutan Point, way to the rear, had come the day before (27 June). The Japanese breakout had left almost no fighting men behind there. Accordingly, the ba...
3. Part 3Accordingly, Lieutenant General Holland Smith met that afternoon with Major General Sanderford Jarman, USA, who was slated to be the island garrison commander, and asked him to...
5. Part 5Private First Class Harold Christ Agerholm was born on 29 January 1925, in Racine, Wisconsin. “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond...