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Aftermath of Japanese last desperate "banzai" attack against American forces on Saipan in World War II

Opening scene shows an M8A1 75mm Howitzer motor carriage (variant of M8, using M5A1 Stuart tank chassis). It moves slowly toward the camera along a dirt road on Saipan during World War 2. Closeup shows short gun barrel and driver in turret above, speaking on radio. Bodies of many Japanese soldiers are seen, recently killed in final attacks culminating in their organized suicide assault (AKA "the Tanapag Plain banzai attack") on July 6th and 7th, 1944. A marine throws a hand grenade at a clump of foliage. (Note: Principal American defenders included units of the 105th Infantry, that bore the brunt of the assault, together with 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marine,Engineers; and 10th Marines, plus supporting artillery units.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July 8
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050867
Aftermath of Japanese Banzai charge on Saipan, Mariana Islands during WWII

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.)

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July 8
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050868
U.S. Marines examine damaged structures and Knocked out tanks on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.

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

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050869
U.S. marines on Saipan after securing it during World War II

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.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050870
U.S. forces searching Saipan for holdout Japanese defenders in World War II

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.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050872
Views of Saipan soon after the U.S. defeated Japanese forces there in World War II

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.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050873
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