Saipan Springboard to Nippon C

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The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight's Pacific story, Saipan Springboard to Nippon, comes to you from Hollywood and Washington, D.C.

as another public service with drama The Past and Present, and commentary by Brigadier General Loris Norstad, Chief of Staff of the 20th Air Force. Saipan, Springboard to Nippon, is from where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific was fought.

This island cost us five times as many casualties as Tarawa had to kill 25,000 Japanese to take it. Today, the soft wind is sowing through the coconut palms and rustling through the cane fields. The flowers are in blossom.

The Oleander, the Scarlet Hibiscus. The aquid smoke of battle is gone. The dead are buried. Place of gunfire, there are other sounds. the side panel and that today means something very special night before we landed last June 15th to other correspondence and I were aboard a transport

looking over the detail chart of site panel doesn't look like much of an island well it's about 15 miles long and about four miles wide in the tonight yeah and see these reefs out here and remember what happened on those recent hour well you must be expecting something we're hitting it with three times the force we used on power one yes and we've