Word: saipan
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...Since North Africa. D-day at Saipan was June 15. The Navy assembled 535 combatant ships and transported 127,571 troops, more than two-thirds marines. Conducted over 1,000 miles from the nearest base, this amphibious landing was comparable, says Historian Morison, only to that of North Africa...
...July 1944, U.S. forces take giant steps to victory. MacArthur leapfrogs nearly 1,000 miles along the New Guinea coast to threaten the Philippines. The Navy moves into the Marianas, 3,500 miles from Pearl Harbor, strips the Japanese fleet of its air arm in a great battle off Saipan and sets up new advance bases. And the Marines and Army take Saipan, Tinian and Guam...
...Permit Nationalist commando units to train on the tightly sealed-off Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian...
...World War II he proved his capacity for high command as the Marines fought their way up the Central Pacific amid the deadly crash of island war: Tarawa. Saipan, Iwo Jima, Peleliu. Shepherd whipped the 9th Marine Regiment into combat shape, went ashore at Cape Gloucester as assistant commander of the famed First Division. He invaded Guam at the head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines...
...King thought that Admiral Spruance was absolutely right in refusing to be drawn away from Saipan in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, even if (though King does not say this) the decision reduced the scope of his victory...