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Saipan is the first invaded Jap territory populated with more than a handful of civilians. Do the suicides of Saipan mean that the whole Japanese race will choose death before surrender? Perhaps that is what the Japanese and their strange propagandists would like us to believe...
...most ceremonious, by all odds, were 100 Japs who were on the rocks below the Marpi Point cliff. All together, they suddenly bowed to marines watching from the cliff. Then they stripped off their clothes and bathed in the sea. Thus refreshed, they put on new clothes and spread a huge Jap flag on a smooth rock. Then the leader distributed hand grenades. One by one, as the pins were pulled, the Japs blew their insides...
Death for 80,000,000? What did all this self-destruction mean? Did it mean that the Japanese on Saipan believed their own propaganda which told them that Americans are beasts and would murder them all? Many a Jap civilian did beg our people to put him to death immediately rather than to suffer the torture which he expected. But many who chose suicide could see other civilians who had surrendered walking unmolested in the internment camps. They could hear some of the surrendered plead with them by loudspeaker not to throw their lives away...
...Japanese newspapers, of the "dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...
...Japs had made plenty of mistakes in planning the defense of Guam. The Marine 3rd Division, advancing southwest from the northern beachhead, found elaborate mine fields and gun positions off the former U.S. Naval Station at Piti. Casualties would have been heavy if the marines had landed there. Instead, they smartly flanked these and many other defenses. But the enemy was still no setup. He was fighting the same kind of savage rear-guard action he had fought on Saipan, where 21,036 Jap corpses had been buried, where 3,414 Americans were dead or missing...