Robinson Army Airfield

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I demand will be on japanese soil for the first time in the pacific war don't for the Highlanders Saipan will be savage mast Japanese tanks and artillery its capture takes three long bloody weeks in the biggest Banzai charge of world war two more than three thousand japanese will charge American troops head off you hand grenades and panic she was k night soon bucks a rifled it was for fight gonna fight Saipan all the way to the end nothing can be left to chance in this decisive battle in the days and weeks leading up to the attack American reconnaissance aircraft to roam the sky above sideband their photographs are used to brief man on their way to the landing beaches buried in the archives for sixty years these images give us a unique insight into the coming back doing with the latest computer technology the photographs pinpoint the key stages Saipan up the invasion you dread the max day you know you go cialis gonna be the same things all over you kill or be killed and there there was a lot I killing you know them smoke order given your way ok for the first time we see in detail not vital landing beaches here down children's sugar cane fields up to battled website do Documentary do Saipan do you mean fifteen b-day as dawn breaks to american battleships two cruisers and seven destroyers approach the Japanese held Island upside turn behind them is an invasion fleet carrying seventy thousand men a busted amphibious Corps ok their mission to take the island I had a man waiting in the transports leider target beaches on the rocky west coast of the island they know the japanese are lying in wait before they can land maybe must plow the roads ok the warships open up with a deafening gone rock sound was cook very often people describe the sound of naval gunfire over on is sounding like freight trains ok ok no prepayment was ever done arms Commission difficult like noise could be , US Marines up the first wave realize they are making history ok when they hit the beaches they will be the first american troops to set foot on Japanese territory give more tonight one of the Marianas Islands miles south of Japan sigh pan has been under Japanese control since Mike it is a vital face on the Pacific sea routes to the Philippines and the rest to the Japanese Empire the Marianas were very much a key portion of the inner ring japan's defensive system so they lost their the injury wasn't serious jeopardy on crumbling planes based on a merry Anders could actually reach the Japanese home islands for the first time in star bring in the war to the Japanese souls very important for the United States my commanded by Lieutenant General you should sukru site of thirty thousand japanese troops defense I pass heavy guns and mortars cover the landing beaches the rest to be square mile hyman is transformed into amazing interlocking machine gun nests and bankers the key to taking saipan will be to use it aerial photographs by for the first time these detailed images are used to construct special d mass we had rubberized relief maps that enabled us to check out every terrain feature ok on the way to the objective various the maps were my so good that I could actually fine love chicken houses at the farmers at in the in their backyard along with the natural features a B Island the map showed Japanese trench lines and bankers near the coast but no maps reveal the island's defenses it's up to them and to do the dirty my I'm on board his headquarters show invasion force commander lieutenant-general Holland m Smith in glasses Cox threw the ball and tells his man the truck we learned how to polarize at old but now we're up against mountains and caves with the Japs can take in cool week from today will be a lot of dead Marines money waiting to board Air Assault ground marines hear about the dangers upside and from another source could Japanese radio broadcaster they call Tokyo Rose blasts around the of are me golf mahal na mahal homes we earned some talk arrows broadcast when we're aboard ship and she played good music popular American Music of pure propaganda is so bad the human life she said you are going to be killed in the want to turn back ten go back home to his girlfriend soon and no won't crazy things like that my at a.m. the man at the assault force climb down to their waiting amtrak's or LDP's my these amphibious vehicles will take them to the beach I more than I've ever been used in any island assault are their targets are beaches on both sides about that now point I to the north is demanding zone at the nd Marine Division to the south the th Marines done now as marine LDP's reach the recent Japanese guns start laying down some less the car ok going over our of grief your jewelry from the enemy seem to increase a great deal known in the lagoon we started to take even small arms fire machine gun part could go right about gold amtrak's get blown up in the water completely destroyed personnel and Amtrak it was wish who's a lot rougher than we saw what ok we're all punched down in the AM right some praying ok some touring know everyone concerned ok when the landing craft finally hit the beaches , Marines storm ashore in just minutes Hey do no my stepdaughter my Ltd ki carrying my card an enemy sniper actually hit my car green light on in the magazine stuck and it was several minutes before I was able to pick up a weapon other Marine who dollar under heavy frontal fire the Marines make it to the tryline along the beach at the Japanese react instantly they just came out of nowhere screamin phone waivers towards him fire there throwing grenades in min they could keep you in your home schooled they had you be C all the while Japanese guns fire on the Marines from positions in like the bill the Marines are sure there's a problem sis do strong currents offshore have pushed on landing craft away from their assigned beaches and as we drifted farther to the leftover assign beach area of every yard we went to the I farther to the north but was another yard we had to fight our way back down to carry out our mission the gap between the two marine divisions widens as they fight again like against desperate Japanese resistance americans start to die controlled this principal objective plan was to stimuli March homes my not guilty today but from one minute to the next book the invasion plan calls for the LDP's to carry the Marines , yards inland to establish their bridgehead the DL TV's attract Japanese fire we got on them as quickly as we could cook they were big time getting that in Palm City shows off to resist cook to show him to upgrade go noon the American beachhead he's still only four hundred yards be on in sport with their first target Japanese landing strip on the coast Don we managed to get through the treeline took the fighters from on no scouts from launch you should not much cover or concealment as you run across a function you cool as evening comes on the order goes out to land no more troops until daylight only half of the planned beachhead has been captured a Japanese still control the high ground overlooking the landing beaches this in addition is fighting on day one US Marines have been killed or wounded the Manish or will have to cling to their positions overnight and wait for reinforcements but general site does man are just as determined they prepare a counterattack to blitz through the Marine Lines the biggest tank attack at the Pacific campaign is going to hit the Marines at all in the fog of more details from los q the fat specifically no exception until now has unprecedented CGV creations and on in the sky photographs tell the secret history of later specific the lost evidence later tonight at on the History Channel yeah you June day too the man at the second and fourth marine divisions have held their narrow beach and through a tense and deadly night now reconnaissance aircraft track their advance as they continue the battle for Saipan the first obstacle is the destroyed town apps are in Kanawha run we were doing never trained to fight building to building and house-to-house ok you know you're over No adornment peaceful fall on their way the booby trap car Japanese bombs hidden at the top of a smokestack you ruined sugar refinery he calls and mortar fire on the unsuspecting marines there was some water available in children from a lot and so we started may be washing our faces and trying to get as comfortable as we could yeah Saipan do and suddenly we're on our bellies trying to dig holes with nothing but arkansan our fingernails in our needs know within a matter of minutes and I'll I was actually a few inches down more than one the soil where I started smokestack is finely pulverized with artillery fire and char in Kanawha is captured but as marines move on to clear out japanese bunkers they face a new tragedy civilians on the battlefield Noy course headed make sure there wasn't any and enemy in those holes and we did we did lose one fella did you go down in the hole and and there was a very very alive the gap down there who shot a man killed him I you the after that we decided well we'll for a grenade in there the the no and unfortunately the in then i phone with occupied by a buncha schoolgirls little chamorro girls in there now is that was really a shared said the I guess that kind of thing happens in world p.m. the Japanese know they have to counterattack before more supplies and reinforcements arrive for the marine divisions they prepare for a night attack from concealed positions in the hills near the town of Daraa the Japanese force head south to attack the Marine bridgehead No spearheading the attacker times up the Japanese th Tank Regiment in support are infantry and elite paratroopers from the special naval landing force marines have the second division hear the sound of engines coming from the darkness most powerful tank force ever used by the Japanese in the pacific is heading straight for them a.m. no remains open fire at point-blank range as the horn to japanese banks roars out of nowhere yes famous for their equipment that goes with it tanks and those were the first to know the hey we're gonna drive us back into the ocean do you fortunate to be able to get the move going when anti-tank where they no we hear we left remote pilot John No the largest Japanese TACA TACA the Pacific campaign use obliterated on Capp lost twenty four or forty tanks just on a cycle mind and then lost several hundred troops you as dawn breaks fresh American troops begin to arrive in a preacher this time they are not combat hard marines but soldiers at the green th Infantry Division C a.m. the soldiers first mission will be to help extend the bridgehead as the second division arrives north toward caravans the th Marines and a regiment of the twenty seventh Division head south for as little airfield No aerial reconnaissance shows in need checkerboard landscaping sugar cane fields in their path no but for the troops on the ground it is a suffocating nightmare see visually cool chemicals a bigger schools around here you fight me get through moment and you don't know who's on your left a bruise on your right done done soon as we realize that they were hiding in these games feels done we actually started setting the cane fields on fire and this would force the japanese out and then when there'd be a real real rabbit sheep and yes bad evening despite legal resistance the American bridgehead has doubled in size the Japanese were fighting for land that they considered to be sensual to the Empire therefore they were dug in everywhere they could and imbued with their their spirited fight in they would fight to the the last drop of blood drop unease medical orderly taro column hootie and his comrades are stunned by the power of the american attack confessed to raping by any means claims is terrible stand because of the constant naval bombardment it is impossible to meet the safety of us shelters the advance across iPad and content in the south the th Marines reach the East Coast and with the th Infantry capture as Salido Fairfield Japanese forces in the south of the island are now cut off do we find a big dashes psyche and rising Suns vs time we have would require drank quite a bit do and the word came out don't drink any home liquid said you find around there there'll always been booby-trapped net poison do on borrow look at each other and group we got it done I girl who was a false alarm bookstore happiness but for the Japanese on-site there is no celebrating from tokyo prime minister general torture sends a radio message to the garrison the because the fate of the Japanese Empire depends on the results will be alteration inspired to spray cum offices in May and you did very end continue to destroy the enemy gallantly and persistently the same deviate damned if I had to. by and perhaps Nov yeah cock ok June do battle in Psych j gone US forces now control the southern third of side pat marines and soldiers prepare to continue their battle for the island but when they look out to sea mugshot rolls through the entire invasion force rewritten particularly when you work under me ocean liners crucial piece partnership inside No their naval support has been called the way to deal with the news right japan has said its most powerful fleet to help the craft garrisons in the Maritimes the Japanese fleet consists of nine aircraft carriers battleships and crews more important rs. aircraft if they can reach out can't obliterate the US fleet the invasion force will be trapped a signal goes out to governorship in the Japanese the fate of the empire rests on this one buck every man must do his math book but US submarines about the Japanese fleet as they approach to marry on his the warning goes out to the US Green Party site to close in for the kill are a move out into the Philippine Sea to meet the enemy had on no miles west side can the first Japanese airstrike dive bombers called Peter bombers and fighters smoke worn by their radar the fifteen american carriers same Hellcats fighters to take the mound before the aircraft can make contact american submarines make a do or die attack on the Japanese carriers to are ripped open by torpedoes and fuel leaks trigger colossal explosions below them apart could be americans one the Japanese but fifty miles from the american carriers the opposing your group finally come face to face ok Saipan really slaughter you get here the valet you couldn't can we of course we knew a lot of people word yeah bring on the air but I've just legal age to head area driven back the surviving Japanese aircraft try to fly to air bases in the area to meet you re of US plane Springer deadly M you can't believe what six fifty calibers can do play like do I remember she and I wanna closest out with his thing just became confetti do just exploded friend noon ok for Japanese air strikes have been at this rate it american pilots call it the great marianas turkey chief japan has made a terrible blunder Guinness pilot train the japanese would keep the Aviators in battle you definitely which met your gradually going to lose all your experienced aviators and the trainees back in Japan will gain know the benefit of their knowledge does Japanese pilots are no match for american and nearly Japanese aircraft have been destroyed you just one day as night falls the Japanese pullback ok the battle is not over ok June dawn determined to destroy every last Japanese American week on aircraft spend the morning hunting down the enemy of p.m. US County plane signals enemy in Psych now the american carriers world to work after blowing away the Japanese fighters American torpedo planes came straight with the captors do after only twenty minutes another carrier has been some COO more damage and Paul but the remaining Japanese aircraft have been shot down but the american aircraft have flown so far they are running out of fuel night is falling they realize that the it will get the airplane back they really had to be able to land immediately so we loaded the White Lake bowl all the care my over it was unbelievable cock eighty US planes crash on carriers projections see ok another have been lost in combat the ok but in two days Japanese aircraft have been denied the far more experienced american aviators went into battle and destroyed the Air Arm have the the Japanese in a battle the Philippines see the No was a slaughter in the skies ok the aircraft carriers which spearheaded japan's advance across the Pacific ok are now empty homes the Japanese Navy is powerless to help the trapped garrisons in the Maritimes call so much destruction has been taking place at sea on this iPad itself american progress has been painfully slow that took forever you go couple Harvard Yard be sure shot Monday and night forward coleman nude and startin' the golan sure open that they would attack you get no closer to knowing very very get with the japanese garrison fighting for every inch of ground I victory is still nowhere in sight and now the Americans must enter the worst to rain once I pass the hell hole they'll call Death Valley I the my great days after the landings on site American troops are still fighting for control I'm p.m. for the vital airfield at Hadley told is open for business ok ok ok p Thunderbolt so the nineteen fighter squadrons fly around the clock and supported the ground C ok but as a leadoff also provides a base for reconnaissance aircraft within minutes to takeoff you're flying over Japanese positions ok working in range have enemy fire the photographic teams rushed the images straight to stack planning the next stage in the advanced June rd day a.m. the US invasion force has cleaved room side tire good now they must attack the Japanese mainline and resistance in the center of the island no basing them are fifteen thousand japanese among them is Tara carla Gugino Co we received heavy casualties due to concentrate its fine and Highland could refuse on top of the mountain bike courted by the commander to be prepared to attack the enemy week rifles ok remains claims marine divisions pushing north up the East and West Coast subside pattern between them the th infantry had strayed into some of the worst terrain in the pacific it's about to her in the name of Death Valley are your dread the next day you know you build cuz gonna be the same things polo kill or be killed the of there was a lot like killing you know there was no quarter given either way are for the next five days progress is agonizingly slow ridges in rabin's around fifteen hundred foot Mount tap a child are honeycombed with Japanese gun emplacements and bunkers they have camouflage their positions so skillfully advancing american troops walked right into that one time out clean my rifle but and I saw the ground open up in the woods by prof. any such firing slides up done yeah probably twenty thirty guys fired back at it killed C but again and again the Marines advances held up by the trees lack of progress in the center of the line the GI seem too cautious to the Marines don't go beyond me the patient and the to start a little bit slower in the morning and let's start with a big preparation of machine guns and rifles and what not world's wheat my we would move out until we contact with the enemy that's when we would open up with him Lions yes June the flames in the marine divisions are taking enemy fire because be harming hasn't kept up with their way to the fans do general Holland Smith has had enough you fires the commander of the th Infantry Division on and I think it was a good move because he didn't wanna see the Marine Forces absorb casualties because in his opinion the armed forces couldn't keep up he wasn't out to get the army he just wanted to you get people moving the changes at the top don't alter things for the men in their flocks homes day after day under a baking Sun and shorter walk things get worse Japanese snipers pic of the leaders concealed machine guns blasted patrols inching their way forms Ste you you hand them a zoom ban its use canine crew but some rifled before some frightened commonplace all the way to the end after days of hardcore compact a small detachment of Marines from the nd division captures the summit amount temperature people it's repeated counterattacks and the Japanese defense begins to crumble I Saipan you was not an easy year taking casualties because movement and moan and had to be gone down well top shall and not much time hand to him commercial labor of love when you're moving in a dead marine down hes like that the th division under its new commander Major General George W grinder drives I had to line up with the marine divisions on the coast are you know we cover non stop comedy man on the th Infantry Division have been killed and wounded in the fight for Death Valley no day nineteen as the Japanese in the center of the island pull back to the north could regimented the nd Marine Division attacks the town of character the problem was that they use corrugated hired sheets for their rooms and they were all over the place paid up the whole underneath and pull one who she told I that girl from kinda fighting was new to us ok do and I had three guys down in no time at all the Graham my the with the American line now stretching from Cara pan in the West to the village it hush ago ruin the eastern it looks like it's all over before the battle for psych and his history the japanese have one more surprise in store soldiers and Marines will call it simply the rain and those who survived will never forget the yeah you what your life if day no after a two-week long struggle for the mountainous center inside time american forces have now captured three quarters of the island noon Yamaha learn them Smith launchers the final push to reach Southern site the advances still held up by diehard Japanese and this job relying on is stomach yeah and he must've heard my footsteps turned over and had a fiscal the take a course who put a couple rounds into him from and I discs look at his face he was blind on he was completely blind and he was fighting going to kill one more american if he could the only a short distance to the north is the last command post general site on under constant shellfire people US warships and artillery it is in an area the Americans called Paradise Valley could Japanese call it the valley upheld cool July day a.m. more general sigh Joe gets the last word for the defensive side bangs with we attack ball whether we stay where we owe that is only been however in death there is a ride and I will try to bounce with EU do that a by another brought to the american devils and even my bones on Saipan are the border is over the Pacific and the order the general site oh sevens to his last troops calls for a GOP Simon it's known as a Banzai attack on and it's a death sentence for Japanese soldiers energy ok assign a tack units must fight on until they are utterly destroyed think only intended to give their lives them learned the general had given them in his proclamation was takes southern American novels mines before giving up your home stolen from one having issued the Geo Cosi toward general site oh has a last meal left and crabmeat and sake then with the help of his staff he commits ritual suicide July th day a.m. one of the Japanese soldiers will follow cycles border the sparrow column Gucci he writes the last entry in his diary are on facing the tone dunno now in reverently tubing parent palace in bidding farewell to my parents aunt in life I solemnly promise to do my utmost do a.m. the last Japanese attack at the Battle Force iPad begins starting from Paradise Valley more than , troops move south the biggest bombs I attack at the war is about to hit the American line I gathering speed like a tidal wave the massive out-of-control Japanese soldiers crashes down amenable Infantry Regiment toilets is Japanese run when they come out with everything they come out to look good for dives dollar they've gone do watch golf iron screaming and hollering you didn't know how effectively work who just fire in the dark jumped into a flagpole would cream and a light which England they were solo while they didn't know what the No I said the gaps out there you go slow start firing all right after that the job to rate the whole area what Kingdom buyer you and the committed to later we'll take tough we're and black do creating a human shield hell bent on killing the Japanese overwhelm the Americans on both sides no quarter is asked forgiven it is kill or be killed like dumped in the river a letter earlier Alec said that another clip but today do and the over her life on the lower the low yeah I looked to my right nobody had looked to my left nobody I turned around and that's when the hell love right over my head I'm they were no other side a roommate who evil in my face this go done back gets public at the command post to the st battalion the said but Italians commanding officer is William Albright with a pistol in each hand he fires into the massive japanese defending his position to the end the first human waiver Japanese soldiers goes hand to hand wherever US troops managed to take up positions medics risk their lives to rescue the wounded yeah I love those side oven i I got trouble in mind well in my arm don't want to mine a limited scientific work was not present and all of a sudden urge medicaid you he managed to reopen body back to the beach no broken into small pockets the American line holds fighting continues all day and by pm the lost ground is again the Americans for all its ferocity the largest Banzai charge up the Pacific War sp you July day a.m. when daylight comes the carnage is beyond imagination bodies covered the plane and the beach more than , dead Japanese are buried over the next yeah not something you can easily described euthanasia lines for pensions donahue Fateh places where there are piled three and i when she tried to imagine overturned he was horrible and and all the dead there that maggots were spewing out a on P eyes and nose and mouth the years good no infantry regiment has suffered terrible casualties more than men have been killed and as well as marines Saipan three-man at the regiment are awarded the Medal Obama giving their lives to turn back the Japanese attack one of them his Lieutenant Colonel William O'Brien know the fighting is over stripe and has one more horror for the young Americans the japanese civilians on the island have been brainwashed by propaganda they were show more freedom auspey cousin what the Japanese soldiers had told them we would do to them on them fully expected to be tortured rate and murdered brutally there were times when its many years name committed suicide by jumping over clutch we try to stop him they were so afraid it was from this propaganda that schooler babies over and jump after on is horrible his worst thing I can remember the wall and I hope home I could get it on my mind that you can a japanese-american interpreters persuade many civilians to surrender ragged and starving emerge from their hiding places pool we gave them candy in who everything was just who was it was good made it almost worthwhile to the police we get a few simpson Saipan July the commanders of the invasion force finally declare the island of Saipan secure the days in the battle have seen some of the hardest fighting the Pacific campaign against desperate resistance soldiers and Marines have fought their way yard by yard to find victory but the cost has been enormous of nearly three and a half thousand soldiers and Marines have been killed and more than thirteen thousand wounded for Japan the fall outside pan is the beginning of the end on her last mabel Air Force has been destroyed and her in a defensive line is in ruins general told Joe man who was masterminded Japan's war in the Pacific balls from power the Japanese realize that american bombers based on side pans captured airfields can now reach japan itself that led one of the top officers after studying reports evolved the campaign to just summarize hell is on us he knew that the bombers the American characters are turning out by the hundreds would be soon over the skies and it would be a matter of okay now the words writer doorsteps hell his harness Japanese troops on Saipan have shown how fanatically they will fight in defensive there home territory the Americans who defeated them realize this was a cakewalk compared to what is coming yeah see each island was higher speech I love more casualties i own with more fighting with the child more debt and destruction really well very determined fall and the you nothing came easily no but the courage of the young man who have broken japan's defensive line saipan has brought the ended the war one step closer from now on it's no holds barred March to Tokyo so the battle of Saipan was known for having the largest Japanese bonzai charge in the entire Pacific campaign. One other interesting fact about The battle was this one guy guy goes around with the next American soldier new Japanese he was able to convince over a thousand japanese soldiers and civilians to defect during the battle he was also able American troops about the Japanese bonsai charged said they would be better prepared for the onslaught more videos about the Pacific campaign please subscribe to my channel