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• Saipan
  ...people, a decline of 10% from 2010. In [[World War II]], the [[Battle of Saipan]] was fought between 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944, a battle of great strateg Saipan belongs to the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] (CNMI), which is an unincorpora
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• Saipan/Definition
  ...t of the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] (CNMI); site of the WWII [[Battle of Saipan]], which triggered the fall of the Tojo government and the beginning of the
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• Battle of Saipan
  A major battle of the [[Pacific War]], the '''Battle of Saipan''' was fought between 15 June 1944 and 8 July 1944. The U.S. objective in Not realized by the Americans, the Japanese considered Saipan a key part of their innermost defensive line. Its capture caused the fall o
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• Saipan/Related Articles
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• Battle of Saipan/Definition
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• Northern Mariana Islands
  ...a total land area of 183.5 square miles, with the population primarily on Saipan, Rota and Tinian. The northern, largely uninhabited islands are Farallon de ==Saipan==
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• Northern Mariana Islands/Definition
  ...monwealth in the Western Pacific, which includes the major WWII bases of [[Saipan]] and [[Tinian]].
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• Battle of Saipan
  A major battle of the [[Pacific War]], the '''Battle of Saipan''' was fought between 15 June 1944 and 8 July 1944. The U.S. objective in Not realized by the Americans, the Japanese considered Saipan a key part of their innermost defensive line. Its capture caused the fall o
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• Saipan
  ...people, a decline of 10% from 2010. In [[World War II]], the [[Battle of Saipan]] was fought between 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944, a battle of great strateg Saipan belongs to the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] (CNMI), which is an unincorpora
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• Ben Salomon/Definition
  ...lled in action protecting a U.S. military hospital, during the [[Battle of Saipan]] from being overrun by Japanese troops; received a long-posthumous [[Medal
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• Guy Gabaldon/Definition
  A U.S. Marine who, at the [[Battle of Saipan]], used the colloquial Japanese learned in his teens to convince 1,500 Japa
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• Saipan/Definition
  ...t of the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] (CNMI); site of the WWII [[Battle of Saipan]], which triggered the fall of the Tojo government and the beginning of the
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• Guy Gabaldon
  ...he [[Second World War]], who distinguished himself, during the [[Battle of Saipan]],<ref name=Gabaldon>{{citation | title = A Lone-Wolf Marine: How One Man Captured 1,500 Japanese on Saipan
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• Ben Salomon/Related Articles
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• Chuichi Nagumo/Definition
  ...f Midway]]; committed suicide while part of the defense in the [[Battle of Saipan]]
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• Mariana Islands/Related Articles
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• Mariana Islands
  ...bsequently, in mid-1944, [[Operation FORAGER]] was directed at [[Guam]], [[Saipan]], and [[Tinian]]. Today, however, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands contains Saipan and Tinian, but Guam has a separate government. Is Guam, then, the Southern
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• Hideki Tojo
  ...d by the [[Prince Konoye]] government after the [[Battle of Saipan|fall of Saipan]]. He was executed for war crimes in 1948 by order of the [[International M
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• Fumimaro Konoe
  ...]]. When he replaced [[Hideki Tojo]] after the [[Battle of Saipan|fall of Saipan]], he has been associated with a desire to end the [[Second World War]], bu ===Fall of Saipan===
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• Operation CARTWHEEL/Bibliography
  ...ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/IV/index.html Vol. 4, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944''. 1950 online edition]
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• USS Sylvania (AKA-44)
  ...arrived there on the 21st and remained for a week prior to departing for [[Saipan]], [[Mariana Islands]]. ...ified en route, and she was directed to proceed to Saipan. She remained at Saipan from [[13 December]] to [[15 December]] when she stood out for California,
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• USS Athene (AKA-22)
  ...' began discharging her passengers on [[27 February]] and got underway for Saipan the next day. ...ached [[San Francisco, California]] on [[23 November]]. Athene returned to Saipan late in December to bring back more troops. While underway to the [[West Co
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• USS Ottawa (AKA-101)
  ...Marianas, [[15 August]]. After discharging cargo at Guam, she proceeded to Saipan and completed discharge of cargo [[28 August]]. ...days later ''Ottawa'' loaded the Second Marines and equipment and departed Saipan [[18 September]] for [[Nagasaki]] and the occupation of Japan. After disemb
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• USS Shoshone (AKA-65)
  ...in an invasion rehearsal off [[Tinian]] on [[12 February]] and departed [[Saipan]] on for the invasion of [[Iwo Jima]]. She arrived off Iwo Jima early on [ ...a position 350&nbsp;miles southeast of Okinawa and ordered to return to [[Saipan]], unloading on 23 May.
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• USS Theenim (AKA-63)
  ...r the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] on [[15 March]]. She sortied from the [[Saipan]] staging area on [[27 March]] with Task Group 51.2, Demonstration Group "C ...ys of the [[Occupied Japan|occupation]]—the ship shuttled supplies between Saipan, [[Manus Island|Manus]], [[Guadalcanal]], [[Espiritu Santo]], [[Leyte (isla
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• World War Two in the Pacific/Related Articles
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• USS Circe (AKA-25)
  ...une]], she carried pilots and ground crews to [[Eniwetok]], [[Kwajalein]], Saipan, and [[Tinian]], returning with men thus relieved to Pearl Harbor [[13 Augu
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• USS Ostara (AKA-33)
  ...Islands]], arriving [[4 June]]. The next day ''Ostara'' was underway for [[Saipan]], [[Marianas Islands]]. Upon arrival [[9 June]], troops were discharged an ...l at Guam passengers and cargo were discharged and the ship proceeded to [[Saipan]], where she underwent emergency hull repairs.
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• Battle of the Philippine Sea
  ...end of offensive Japanese capabilities, and gave the U.S. control of Guam, Saipan and Tinian islands that provided air bases within range of [[B-29]] bombers ...attle of the Philippine Sea. Airfields on the island of [[Battle of Saipan|Saipan]]--within B-29 range of Tokyo--was the objective as 535 ships began landing
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• USS Southampton (AKA-66)
  ...on [[5 February]] and, two days later, headed on to [[Saipan]]. She made [[Saipan]] on the 11th, conducted final invasion rehearsals off [[Tinian]] between t ''Southampton'' arrived at [[Saipan]] on [[4 March]], disembarked the wounded marines and sailors; and, by the
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• USS Muliphen (AKA-61)
  ...[Iwo Jima]] [[19 February]], unloaded until [[4 March]], then retired to [[Saipan]]. ...reserve off [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] until 10 April, she sailed then for Saipan and cargo duty between the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] and [[Solomons]]. S
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• Reijiro Wakatsuki
  ...y 1945 conference, with other former Prime Minister, after the [[Battle of Saipan]] and just before the start of the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]] and six weeks bef
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• USS Aquarius (AKA-16)
  ...Sea]] and the unexpectedly fierce resistance of the Japanese garrison on [[Saipan]] caused the invasion of Guam to be postponed. After standing-by for over a ...supplying other ships. She got underway again on the latter day; called at Saipan on [[13 April]]; Pearl Harbor on [[26 April]]; and arrived at [[Seattle]],
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• USS Lacerta (AKA-29)
  ...rked troops for the [[Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa invasion]]. She departed [[Saipan]] [[27 March]] for the operation that would advance American troops to a st ''Lacerta'' departed Okinawa [[9 April]] for [[Saipan]], where she remained until [[3 June]]. In the months prior to [[Surrender
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• Saipan/Related Articles
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• USS New Hanover (AKA-73)
  ...and passenger operations which took her to [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Tinian]], [[Saipan]], the [[Philippines]], and ultimately [[Japan]], from which she returned t
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• USS Leo (AKA-60)
  .... Turner|Richmond Kelly Turner]]. After brief calls at [[Eniwetok]] and [[Saipan]], the ship arrived off the beaches of Iwo early morning, D-Day, 19 Februar ...om [[Kwajalein]], the ship prepared for the Okinawa landing. She departed Saipan on 27 March with Rear Admiral Wright's Demonstration Force for simulated la
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• USS Fomalhaut (AKA-5)
  ...sailed 1 June to land troops and their equipment on Charan Kanoa Beach, [[Saipan]], 16 June, the day after the initial assault. On 23 June, she got underway ...[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]], off which she arrived 11 May. After a voyage to Saipan, where she touched 2 June, ''Fomalhaut'' returned to duty in San Pedro Bay
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• USS Artemis (AKA-21)
  ...got underway to participate in the [[Battle of Iwo Jimas]]. Steaming via [[Saipan]], the ship anchored in Transport Area "Baker" off the southeast coast of [ Returning to Saipan, she then went to the flet base at [[Ulithi]]. and then left for the Philip
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• USS Stokes (AKA-68)
  ...staging area in the [[Northern Mariana Islands]]. The ships stood out of [[Saipan]] on [[16 February]] for [[Iwo Jima]]. ...She then loaded combat casualties for evacuation to the base hospital at [[Saipan]]. After disembarking the wounded there, the ship moved to [[Guam]] to repl
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• USS Aurelia (AKA-23)
  ...to operate in that embattled area until [[14 April]] when she headed for [[Saipan]]. On the 16th, she continued on toward Hawaii. After a four-day stay in Pe ...Aurelia reached Pearl Harbor on [[6 July]] and, 10 days later, sailed for Saipan, via Eniwetok. She returned to Pearl Harbor on [[12 August]]. While she was
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• Ben Salomon
  ...ere no equivalents of today's advanced paramedics. During the [[Battle of Saipan]], the Japanese started overrunning his hospital unit, he stood a rear-guar The Battle of Saipan, although this was not understood in the U.S. at the time, caused the colla
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• USS Turandot (AKA-47)
  ...as a magic carpet for more than a thousand returning troops. She departed Saipan on the 27th and completed the crossing at San Pedro on [[12 December]].
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• USS Suffolk (AKA-69)
  ...k'' remained at [[Okinawa]] until [[30 April]] when she got underway for [[Saipan]]. She was ordered to return to the United States via [[Eniwetok]] and [[Pe ...loading. On [[16 June]] she stood out to sea, en route to [[Eniwetok]], [[Saipan]], and the [[Bonin Islands]], arriving at [[Iwo Jima]] on [[7 July]]. All c
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• Raymond Spruance
  At Philippine Sea, he again saw his mission as covering the [[Battle of Saipan]], not the destruction of the Japanese fleet. Later, at the [[Battle of Ley
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• Prepositioning ship
  Operates from Guam/Saipan
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• USS Trousdale (AKA-79)
  ...il]], she joined a south-bound convoy and, on [[27 April]], made port at [[Saipan]], where she transferred all of her [[landing craft]], save two, to other s ...lagi]], where she loaded landing craft and set out, via [[Eniwetok]] and [[Saipan]], for [[Guam]], arriving there on [[7 June]].
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• USS Alhena (AKA-9)
  ...vision embarked, bound via [[Eniwetok]] for Saipan. ''Alhena'' arrived off Saipan on 15 June and began debarking her troops. Despite undergoing two air attac
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• USS Wheatland (AKA-85)
  ...[Japan]], in company with a 34-ship convoy. She made a three-day stop at [[Saipan]] along the way and arrived at Sasebo early on the 22d. She discharged her ...n [[13 December]]. She arrived at [[Guam]] on the 28th and later visited [[Saipan]] whence she departed the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] on 22 January 1946.
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• USS Venango (AKA-82)
  ...f [[Okinawa]]. On [[22 April]], she departed the [[Ryukyus]] and reached [[Saipan]] on the 27th. ...attalion for transportation to [[Okinawa]]. Two days later, she departed [[Saipan]] in convoy and, on the 27th, stood into Nakafusuku Wan. Numerous air raids
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• Gerald Bogan
  ...ER]], the invasion of the Marshall Islands, beginning with the [[Battle of Saipan]]. During this operation, he was extremely critical of the performance of h
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• USS Whiteside (AKA-90)
  ...ary]] in convoy, bound for [[Iwo Jima]]. She stopped at [[Eniwetok]] and [[Saipan]] along the way and arrived off the objective early on the morning of [[19 ...ted Okinawa in company with the other ships of TransRon 16. After stops at Saipan and Guam, the ship arrived at [[Ulithi]] on [[26 April]]. On [[8 May]], the
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