For Victory -- The Price is High. On the beach at Saipan, a dead Marine is moved by litter bearers to the burial ground as bitter Jap resistance rolled up heavy casualties among the invasion forces of Army troops, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and Navy fighters. Three weeks of fighting brought the fall of Garapan, capital city of the Marianas, and hemmed the stubborn Nips in a strangling corner on the northern coast of Saipan.

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