John C. Chapin

By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…

The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…

The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…