Planners hoped to battle this decisive battle across the Palaus Islands and the Western Carolines, however the U.S. Some 535 fight ships and auxiliaries transported 127,571 troops to islands greater than a thousand miles from the closest U.S. Congress passes the GI Invoice: in June 1944, the U.S. June 6: In an superior show of navy force, the Allies land on the coast of France. U.S. Marines land on Mariana Island, Saipan: Invading the Mariana ...