June the 15th, 1944, D-Day. Two American battleships, two cruisers and seven destroyers approach the Japanese held island of Saipan. Behind them was an invasion fleet carrying 70,000 men of the 5th Amphibious Corps. Their mission, to take the island. Ahead of the men, waiting in the transports, lay their target beaches on the rocky west coast of the island. They knew the Japanese were lying in wait. The 8,000 U.S. Marines of the first wave realized this would be no ordinary landing. When they hi...Les mer

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