d-day for saipan: june 15, sixty years ago. indoctrination: kill ´em all. smoke all over, fire again. an horrifying suicide charge: armed with swords and rocks. desperated, hopeless. a mark in the memory of soldiers. no surrender ? mass suicide a place of hopelessness misinformation led to a desaster noone survived. 20,000 were ashore by nightfall. a short but bloody fight. one escape: the caves last escape: the cliffs. she drowned in the sea in summer ´44.