The plan called for 90,000 Army and Marine personnel to capture Taiwan, which would turn the island into a staging point for ...

Their last stop before an invasion of Japan's main islands was Okinawa. This bloody and costly battle ended in June 1945. Some of the surviving troops returned to bases in Guam. Their orders were ...

By the 1930s, Taiwan was discarded in favor of seizing Okinawa, a smaller objective closer to the four largest Japanese islands. Related stories In 1944, with Japan crumbling and an invasion of ...