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The Unprecedented Assault: How the Capture of a Japanese Homeland Island Became America's Most Daunting Mission of the Pacific War

Declassified archives reveal the immense strategic gamble behind the invasion of Saipan, a island Japan considered sacred ...
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Americans planned a massive invasion of Japan for November 1945. But it didn’t happen.

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...