In June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The ...

PFC Maurice E. Prince, a New Bedford Marine killed in action during the Battle of Saipan in WWII, is honored by the 77th Lights for Peace flag.

In July 1944 during World War II at the Battle of Saipan, an 18-year-old American Marine named Guy Gabaldon achieved something thought impossible in the Pacific War. Using his knowledge of the ...

Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr.

They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with the fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, in part for the reprieve they offer from the dreary and mundane. But these tales offer something ...

University of Winchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Don’t make the mistake of thinking Saipan is a film about the brutal second world war battle on this small Pacific island.

Today, our Nation commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima—a monumental struggle that advanced the cause of victory in the Pacific ...

Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful ...

On January 23rd, residents of Minneapolis who have been protesting the presence of ICE agents in their city declared a general strike. I had spent much of the previous week there, and the strike had ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

“Saipan,” the critically acclaimed Irish drama about the infamous fallout between former Irish soccer star Roy Keane and national team manager Mick McCarthy, is heading to the U.S. just in time for ...