Bombarding the Marianas: joint fires at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. (World War II).

From: FA Journal | Date: May 1, 2002| Author: Hernandez, Prisco R. | Copyright information

The war was lost when the Marianas were taken away from Japan and when we heard the B-29s were coming out... we had nothing in Japan that we could use against such a weapon.

Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni

Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Home Defense

"Campaign in the Marianas"

United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific, Phillip A. Growl

The campaign to capture the Mariana Islands from the Japanese is especially wor...

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