America vs. Japan: Why the Battle of Saipan Was a Hellish Horror Show

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America vs. Japan: Why the Battle of Saipan Was a Hellish Horror Show
Daniel L. Davis

March 31, 2017

Two months before the election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump said he would increase the size of the Marine Corps by expanding its current total of twenty-three battalions by building “a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions.” To give an idea of just how many Marines it takes to conduct a forced beach assault, in June the Marines were part of the initial invasion force of the South Pacific island of Saipan in which more than thirty battalions of Marines were needed. But the amount of naval, air, and Army ground troops it also took to take that island was even more staggering. And more vicious and bloody than can be imagined.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/america-vs-japan-why-the-battle-saipan-was-hellish-horror-19967

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Thank you for this article, very interesting.