A US Marines plane that went down during World War II has been discovered in the South Pacific, 80 years after it went missing. The wreckage of the Douglas SBD Dauntless was found by locals in the ...
June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific ... World War II. U.S. forces shoot down so many Japanese ...
Japan invades Malaya (known today as Malaysia); Japanese aircraft sink a British battleship and a battle cruiser off the coast of Malaya. Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific.