Word: charan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty village of Charan Kanoa, where banana trees line the streets, there were speeches and posters, dances and rallies. Trooping to the village hall, Chamorros and Carolinians cast secret ballots. When the results were totted, tall & balding Elias Sablan, 46, had beaten 25 other candidates for the office of chief...
Cool in Combat. "Primarily they were used as ammunition carriers and beachhead unloading parties, but on Saipan some were used for combat. When Japs counterattacked the 4th Marine Division near Charan Kanoa, twelve Negroes were thrown into the defense line. Their white officers said they accounted for about 15 Japs...
...dawn on D-day Saipan looked like a low-lying prehistoric monster whose high, rising spine was Mt. Tapotchau. Already the sugar-mill town of Charan Kanoa was afire or smoking at several points and there was some smoke rising from Garapan from the bombing and shelling of the previous two days. At 5:45 the big guns began-gunfire from 5-inch destroyer to 16-inch battleship shells. Tinian Island, five miles south of Saipan, got its share of shells against artillery emplacements and other targets...