THE MARIANAS: DEFENCE TO THE DEATH

15 JUNE— 10 AUGUST 1944 15 JUNE 1944 US B-29 bombers attack the Japanese home island of Kyushu from Chinese bases. 23 JUNE 1944 Red Army begins Operation “Bagration” against Army Group Centre in Belorussia 1 AUGUST 1944 First Soviet troops carve out a small bridgehead over the River Vistula. 4 AUGUST 1944 German armies pull back from Florence to man the Gothic Line in Italy. 15 AUGUST 1944 Allied Operation “Dragoon” mounted against occupied southern France. After the island-hopping attacks on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific, Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief Pacific Ocean Areas, determined to capture the Marianas, a group of islands including Saipan and Guam, which were within air radius of the Japanese home islands for attacks by the new Boeing B-29 heavy bomber. Air…

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