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Greetings PHG Fans! For those of you interested in the military history of Saipan, check out this talk I gave on WW2TV, regarding the fight for the island in June 1944. I offered my perspective from that of the Japanese defenders on Saipan, specifically the 43rd Infantry Division under Lt. Gen. Saito Yoshitsugu. Having lived in the Marianas, and visited quite a few battlefields and historic sites throughout the islands, I was more than excited to examine the Battle of Saipan

This is the entrance to Katori Shrine. Saipan was part of Japanese-mandated Micronesia from 1914 until the end of the Second World War. Some 60,000 Japanese people lived on the island in 1944.

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