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...their left, the attackers moved on Garapan (see map), the largest town (pop. 10,000) on Saipan, and the capital of the whole Marianas chain. On their right they skirted the shores of Magicienne Bay past Laulau. In the center, struggling yard by bitter yard up the slopes, blasting and burning the Japs out of caves and crannies, they seized Mt. Tapotchau...
...artillery and mortar fire had cut down many a U.S. fighting man, and there was bloody fighting ahead. But the crushing logic of war was against the minions of the Emperor. Saipan was bound to fall...
Before the Marines and Army infantrymen had well secured their toehold on Saipan, in the Marianas, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of Attu and Tarawa, was ashore with them. He radioed...
...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...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...