Saipan 1944 – Piercing Japan’s Pacific Defences

Piercing Japan’s Pacific Defences

Find out how US forces managed to pierce Japan’s Pacific defensive perimeter in the Mariana Islands at Saipan in a terrible fight in 1944 that included the largest Banzai charge of the war.

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