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Parent topics
- World War II, Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
Subtopics
- Hideki Tojo [r]: General of the Imperial Japanese Army and Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944; Chief of Staff (Imperial Japanese Army), (21 Feb 1944 - 18 Jul 1944); executed for war crimes in 1948 by order of the International Military Tribunal (Tokyo) [e]
Japanese forces
- Chuichi Nagumo [r]: {1887-1944) Vice Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy; commanded the attack on Pearl Harbor force primarily through seniority but was not considered innovative or aggressive; early successes fell to failures from mid-1942 such as losing four carriers at the Battle of Midway; committed suicide while part of the defense in the Battle of Saipan [e]
- Yoshitsugu Saito [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Marine Corps
- H. M. Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 2nd Marine Division [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 4th Marine Division [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Army
- Guy Gabaldon [r]: A U.S. Marine who, at the Battle of Saipan, used the colloquial Japanese learned in his teens to convince 1,500 Japanese troops and civilians both to surrender and not to commit suicide [e]
- Ben Salomon [r]: A United States Army dental officer, who was killed in action protecting a U.S. military hospital, during the Battle of Saipan from being overrun by Japanese troops; received a long-posthumous Medal of Honor after extensive review and special legislation [e]
- Shigeru Yoshida [r]: (1878-1967) Japanese diplomat before and after World War Two in the Pacific, who became a postwar Prime Minister of Japan [e]
- Chief of Staff (Imperial Japanese Army) [r]: Senior professional officer of the Imperial Japanese Army, in principle in operational command but not necessarily in practice [e]
- Northern Mariana Islands [r]: A U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, which includes the major WWII bases of Saipan and Tinian. [e]