The end of July marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Tinian, completing the campaign to capture the Marianas Islands during Operation FORAGER. Seizure of the Marianas Islands enabled a ...
Dorothy Duval Nelson, left, and her son Lee Nelson look at the neatly arranged military-issued items in the trunk Claude Duval carried with him during World War II. Claude Duval was Dorothy Nelson's ...
"The Battle of Tinian came right after the Battle of Saipan, and Claude and his men landed there on July 25, 1944," said James P. Gregory, director of LSU's William T. Brookshire Military Museum in ...