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...Saipan's snipers were the meanest yet. In this cable, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells how the marines went about one job of mopping up these fanatical, last-ditch fighters...
...Saipan three divisions of battle-tried U.S. troops fought one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military annals. By week's end, they had pushed, blasted and gouged the enemy from two-thirds of the island's 75 square miles. They were sure of victory. But the Jap, fighting a Bataan in reverse, in the third week of it still fought hard...
...first 14 days of land fighting on Saipan the U.S. had lost 1,474 dead, 878 missing, 7,400 wounded. Total: 9,752, of whom seven-eighths were marines of the 2nd and 4th Divisions, one-eighth Army, of the 27th Division (New York National Guard...
...rout the Japs from their caves in Saipan's limestone hills, the attackers used every weapon in the varied U.S. arsenal, from flamethrowers and bazookas to 16-inch naval guns and 2,000-lb. bombs...
Centripetal Blows. How many more Americans must die before Saipan could be cleared of all its original 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, no man could say. But final victory was assured by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's huge Task Force 58, whose carriers kept supply lanes clear...