FDR announces that, by Executive Order, Pacific Coast Japanese Americans will be relocated to internment camps. During the course of the war, over 17,000 Japanese Americans volunteer and fight for ...
July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.
The two leaders discussed the war in the Pacific, and Churchill offered the aid of a British fleet. Roosevelt leapt at the opportunity against the advice of Admiral King, considered one of the ...