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.

8, 1941, Japan time, opening the Pacific War, which lasted more than three years and eight months. A year after the 1931 Mukden Incident, which marked the beginning of Tokyo’s invasion of China ...