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As It Happened: Saipan

June 15th, 1944, just nine days after D-Day in Normandy, on the far side of the world another invasion fleet was about to land its troops. The battle for the Island of Saipan would be savage, its capture to three, long, gruesome weeks.

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As It Happened: Saipan

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