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Army reinforcements and began pushing inland toward Aslito Airfield and Japanese forces in the southern and central parts of the island. The next morning, the troops were joined by U.S. had suffered approximately 2,000 casualties in the process. By the end of the day, some 20,000 troops had established a beachhead on Saipan however, the U.S. Chapin, a Marine on Saipan, described the chaos around him that morning, with its “bodies lying in mangled and grotesque positions blasted and burned out pillboxes the burning wrecks of LVTs … the acrid smell of high explosives the shattered trees and the churned up sand littered with discarded equipment.”ĭespite the heavy resistance they faced, 8,000 Marines managed to reach the shore that first morning. In “Breaching the Marianas: the Battle for Saipan,” author John C. Weird and Wondrous: Evolution of Super Bowl Halftime Show
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ships with 127,000 troops, including 77,000 Marines, had taken the Marshall Islands, and American high command next sought to capture the Mariana Islands, which formed the critical front line for Japan’s defense of its empire. forces involved in the Pacific Campaign invaded Japanese-held islands in the central Pacific Ocean along a path toward Japan. finally trapped the Japanese in the northern part of the island, Japanese soldiers launched a massive but futile banzai charge. Fighting became especially brutal and prolonged around Mount Tapotchau, Saipan’s highest peak, and Marines gave battle sites in the area names such as “Death Valley” and “Purple Heart Ridge.” When the U.S. Facing fierce Japanese resistance, Americans poured from their landing crafts to establish a beachhead, battle Japanese soldiers inland and force the Japanese army to retreat north. could launch its new long-range B-29 bombers directly at Japan’s home islands. Marines stormed the beaches of the strategically significant Japanese island of Saipan, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base from which the U.S. On June 15, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II (1939-45), U.S.
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