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Guy Louis Gabaldon (March 22, 1926 – August 31, 2006) was a United States Marine who, at age 18, captured or persuaded to surrender over 1,300 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the battles for Saipan and Tinian islands in 1944 during World War II.
A Lost Child. Koyu Shiroma, a Japanese civilian, was just five years-old when the battle for Saipan began. When the bombardment and enemy got too close to the family farm, the Shiromas fled...
As I will show here, civilian memoirs of the battle of Saipan complicate the picture, revealing complex and contra-dictory relationships between non-combatants and the soldiers who came to defend the island as well as within the very ranks of Japan’s armed forces on Saipan.
Suicide Cliff is a cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which achieved historic significance late in World War II. Also known as Laderan Banadero , it is a location where Japanese civilians and Imperial Japanese Army soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in ...
The Japanese defending Saipan’s rugged center exacted a terrible toll on the soldiers. Particularly nasty areas earned evocative nicknames – “Hell’s Pocket,” “Death Valley,” and “Purple Heart Ridge” – and indelible memories for those who survived.
"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the Fourth Battalion, Tenth Marines, Second Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Saipan, Marianas Islands, 7 July 1944.
TIME. August 7, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4. To the marines on Saipan, the suicide of Japanese soldiers in the last days of the battle for the island, was an old story. But there were 20,000...
