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Banzai Cliff and Suicide Cliff
1944
Marpi Point, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the last days of the battle for Saipan, hundreds of Japanese civilians jumped from these cliffs rather than surrender, many of them families, some pushed by soldiers. Marines and interpreters with loudspeakers tried for days to stop it. Both cliffs are memorials now, tended by Japanese and American visitors alike.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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