In the summer of 1944, World War II’s Pacific campaign reached a turning point on the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan. Soldiers and civilians alike fought to the death to defend it, since U.S.
The war lasted six years. Millions died; entire cities were nuked and destroyed. The end to it all took just 23 minutes. On the morning of September 2, 1945, the battleship USS Missouri lay anchored ...