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Why U.S. Marines Let 4,300 Japanese Troops “Charge Their Artillery” — And Annihilated All Of Them

On July 7, 1944, during the Battle of Saipan, approximately 4,000 desperate Japanese troops launched a massive banzai charge that broke through U.S. Army lines and reached Marine artillery positions in what became known as the largest Japanese suicide attack of the Pacific War. Marine gunners were forced to fight at point-blank range, depressing their 105mm howitzers and cutting fuses to mere fractions of a second so shells would explode just yards from their own positions as Japanese soldiers swarmed over their guns. By evening, the Marines had retaken all lost ground and counted over 4,300 Japanese dead—including 2,295 bodies stacked in front of just one Army regiment's position—effectively ending organized Japanese resistance on Saipan in a single, catastrophic day. Subscribe for more untold stories of WW2!