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...cost of Saipan was high -2,359 killed, 1,213 missing, 11,481 wounded. But the military justification was high, too; in many ways, Saipan was the most important objective yet taken by U.S. troops in the drive across the Pacific. The Japs, who knew its value, gave it up hard. Their losses: 16,000 dead, 1,000 prisoners, countless others missing in the caves where they were buried by explosive and by bulldozers. In this dispatch from the battlefield, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells of the Japs' last stand...
...battle of Saipan is over. Tomorrow our flag will...
...gave them any comfort, civilians of the London area could compare their robot bomb casualties with those of U.S. fighting men on Saipan. But the bill for Saipan was paid in full, the casualty list closed. The roll of robot victims was still wide open...
...pork and egg yolk when a bullet whizzed close overhead. We hit the dirt behind the cement fence. A marine yelled: "I saw him. He jumped into a cave over there in the rock quarry." Several other marines ran toward the quarry-one of several dozen on Saipan. Caves in the sides of these scooped-out affairs are favorite hiding places for Japs. Then began the familiar game of "flush the sniper...
...blocked with at least a five-foot thickness of earth. It all ended there. It was not very satisfactory because we never found out what was in the hole. Maybe some day somebody will dig into this piece of earth, and into hundreds of similar pieces of earth on Saipan, and find some answers...