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2. Oba: The Last Samurai - Wikipedia

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   Oba: The Last Samurai (太平洋の奇跡 –フォックスと呼ばれた男 –, Taiheiyō no kiseki: Fokkusu to yobareta otoko, i.e. Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox), also known as Miracle of the Pacific, Battle of the Pacific and Codename: Fox, is a 2011 Japanese World War II Pacific War drama film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama and based on the true story of Captain Sakae Ōba ...

3. Battle of Saipan - Wikipedia

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   On the second day of the battle, he had estimated that Saipan would be captured in a week; [105] it had taken 24 days. [273] On 11 July, the Americans found General Saitō's body. He was buried on 13 July with full military honors in a coffin draped with the Japanese flag. [274]

4. Hell to Eternity - Wikipedia

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   Hell to Eternity is a 1960 American World War II film starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone and Patricia Owens, directed by Phil Karlson.This film biopic is about the true experiences of Marine hero Pfc. Guy Gabaldon (played by Hunter), a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese American foster family, and his heroic actions during the Battle of Saipan.

5. Guy Gabaldon - Wikipedia

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   In 1970, he moved to Saipan with his wife where he established a seafood business and ran a youth camp. He lived there for 20 years. He was an avid pilot and flew small planes all over the CNMI. [3] In 1990, he authored and self-published a book; Saipan: Suicide Island, also re-printed as America Betrayed. In 1995, he returned to California.

6. Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian - Wikipedia

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   The film begins by describing the difficulties the civilian population posed during the Battle of Saipan including the famous mass suicide of Japanese who believed the US would torture them. As the Marianas campaign progressed though, the Marines learned to use the Intelligence Division (ID) to handle the Japanese civilians, and by the time the ...

7. Battle of Saipan order of battle - Wikipedia

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   On 15 June 1944, United States Marine forces landed on the southwest coast of the island of Saipan in the central Marianas chain; these were followed a day later by US Army forces. This invasion was part of Operation Forager , an effort to recapture the entire Marianas chain from the Empire of Japan .