Individual #Saipan  US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
  instance of:  amphibious_assault
  part of:  World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War  a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  part of:  Saipan.island__saipan  an island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
     part of:  Mariana_Islands__Marianas__Ladrone_Islands  a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan
        part of:  Federated_States_of_Micronesia__Micronesia__TT  a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
           part of:  Micronesia  the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
              part of:  Oceania__Oceanica  a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
                 part of:  Pacific_Ocean__Pacific  the largest ocean in the world
              part of:  Austronesia  islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
                 part of:  Pacific_Ocean__Pacific  the largest ocean in the world

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