Americans display (holding it upside down) a huge Japanese rising sun Vice Admiral rank flag , captured after a desperate "banzai" attack by Japanese forces on Saipan, during World War 2. A photograpner takes a picture. Ammunition left on the ground from the battle. Two knocked-out Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tanks. Destroyed defensive positions and buildings. Americans examine remains of buildings and defensive positions. Several local civilians walk into the center of the scene of death and destruction. Dead Japanese soldiers are seen everywhere, throughout the sequence. (Note: Aftermath of the "Tanapag Plain banzai attack" on July 6th and 7th, 1944. Americans engaged included units of the 105th Infantry; 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marines; and 10th Marines.)
A line of landing craft silhouetted on the horizon. An explosion on the shore behind them. Camera pans from beach, across a bay to a beached landing craft, and then back past some damaged huts, to a destroyed Japanese motorcycle that an American marine examines. A marine climbs through a damaged Japanese wooden structure. A marine examines a knocked out Japanese 1st Yokosuka SNLF Type 2 Ka Mi Amphibious tank
U.S. Marines on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. A shirtless U.S. marine poses in front of a truck. A wounded marine carried on a litter to a dock. Marines and vehicles seen at base of so-called "Suicide Cliff" on Saipan. Marines gathered on and around a U.S. M3 Gun Motor Carriage (75mm). Two marines carry a fallen comrade (completely covered on a litter). View of marines gathered on the beach, around several Japanese prisoners seated beneath some sort of Japanese structure supporting a scale.
Scene opens showing American troops assenbled in a clearing on Saipan for a formal flag raising ceremony, following the defeat of Japanese forces defending the island in World War 2. Camera pans over the assembled officers and troops. All salute as the flag is raised by military police. View of the American flag atop the flag pole. After the ceremony, Some of the senior American officers present stand about conversing. Admiral Raymond Spruance, Commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, is seen wearing a pith helmet. Close to him is Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Commander, V Amphibious Corps. Also seen, in fatigues, is Major General Sanderford Jarman, Commanding General, U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division. The remainder of the film shows them and other senior officers mingling and conversing with one another.
Camera follows American troops as they comb through hiding places at the end of the battle for Saipan in World War 2. Small children hiding among some boulders. Next a Japanese woman and four small children are seen seated on the ground. A U.S. soldier bandages the arm of one child. A group of American soldiers searches for Japanese soldiers near a cave. Two soldiers seen firing at a suspected Japanese enemy position. Next, they search the underbrush and retrieve a box of canned goods next to the body of a dead Japanese soldier. A dead Japanese soldier floating in a stream. U.S. infantrymen continuing their search for Japanese holdouts. One retrieves an abandoned Japanese rifle. Another holds a Japanese grenade. One GI displays a Japanese long Arisaka Type 38 rifle with a Type 30 bayonet. (The rifle is 4 feet, 2 inches long and the bayonet 20 inches, making it almost 5-feet in overall length.) Camera pans across misty landscape near the shore, with so-called "suicide cliff" in background. A woman and small girl sitting beneath a rough shelter.
A native Chamorro man walking slowly along a path on Saipan after the American defeat of Japanese forces there in World War 2 Small boats maneuvering near the shore. Several American soldiers search a Japanese youth in uniform. A number of Japanese women and children being assembled and tended to by U.S. infantrymen, who pour them water from a large can. Japanese prisoners and civilians fill an open truck, to overflowing, as an American military photographer takes pictures.
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