On February 17, 1944, American carrier aircraft struck Truk Lagoon, one of Japan’s most important naval bases in the central Pacific. The target was not a beachhead. No Marines were waiting in landing ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...