Category: War

Six dozen years past

evil tasted fear while gorging

at France and Saipan.*

*(Though the U. S. Marines’ invasion of Saipan did not exactly coincide with the June Sixth  – invasion by the American-led U.S. Army and allies’ at Normandy, both invasions were within a week of each other. Saipan’s invasion began June 9, 1944.  The notoriety – and eurocentricity of American public policy and common thought – of the Normandy landings, understandably, outshined what took place at both Saipan and Tinian, the next island in the campaign that brought B-29 Superfortress bombers within range of the Japanese home islands and thus begin the end of The Pacific War.  Oddly enough, Marines still retain all the unfounded credit for the Pacific War, though only Iwo Jima and Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll were the only  two campaigns exclusively conducted by USMC invasion forces throughout WWII. Saipan remains a part of the Northern Mariana Islands U. S. Commonwealth.)