PREVIEW: #SAIPAN: Conversation with Colonel Grant Newsham, USMC (ret) re the "hard as Hell" beach landings on Saipan by 2nd and 4th Marines and the 27th USA eighty years ago, June 15, 1944 -- and the Imperial Japanese Army defenses. More detail tonight.

Jun 17, 08:30 PM

PREVIEW: #SAIPAN: Conversation with Colonel Grant Newsham, USMC (ret) re the "hard as Hell" beach landings on Saipan by 2nd and 4th Marines and the 27th USA eighty years ago, June 15, 1944 -- and the Imperial Japanese Army defenses. More detail tonight.

15 June 1944 Red Beach, Saipan