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...carnage was horrific. In the China theater alone, perhaps as many as 10 million people perished. In the fighting in the central Pacific, some 20,000 U.S. soldiers died. On Saipan, Japanese women and children hurled themselves from cliffs rather than submit to the American invaders. Most Japanese soldiers there either died fighting or took their own lives: 27,040 corpses were found. The toll from Tarawa--984 U.S. Marines and 29 Navy men killed in just 76 hours of fighting--caused normally self-censoring correspondents to send home horror stories that nearly triggered a congressional investigation. All of February...
...command of a ship off Saipan preparing for the invasion of Japan when a message came over the radio that a `powerful bomb' was dropped on Japan," says one of the essays in the booklet. "Even if they had said atomic bomb, none of us would have known what...
Williams said about 344 Indian nationals were evacuated from the U.S. Embassy Compound yesterday and brought to the USS Saipan before departing for Freetown...
...Marianas are already adjusted to American ways. Governor Pedro P. Tenorio was in Honolulu last week negotiating with Washington officials for more federal aid. A State Department team was in the capital of Saipan processing applications for U.S. passports...
...Navy in the summer of 1942 but flunked the physical because his brilliant blue eyes turned out to be colorblind. He ended up in the Air Corps and spent most of the next three years as a radioman in torpedo planes and in submarine patrols off Guam, Hawaii and Saipan. He saw no serious combat. He says, "I got through the whole war on two razor blades...