As American soldiers moved northward in their quest to secure Saipan, Japanese soldiers resisted with every means available to them, while hundreds of Japanese civilians chose death before capture.
Afterward, Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Hawaii to consult with Chester Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur and consider the question, “Where do we go from here?”
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Fanfare
Opening War Theme
Fugue in B Minor
Music composed ca. 1715 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Public domain.
Performed by Gunnar Johansen. Public domain recording. Source.
Closing War Theme
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