Week 255 - Mass Suicide on Saipan - WW2 - July 15, 1944

Japanese troops and civilians commit mass suicide rather than surrender to the Americans in the Marianas; in Normandy, Caen has finally fallen to the Allies though the fight for St. Lo is not over; the Soviet offensives in the north take Vilnius and the fighting continues up in Finland, but the big eastern front news is the mighty new Soviet offensive in Western Ukraine.

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Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
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Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com

Image sources:
Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J06632,_Sepp_Dietrich
Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1976-096-08,_Heinrich_Eberbach
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-079-02, Führerhauptquartier, Stauffenberg, Hitler, Keitel
FDR_1944_Color_Portrait Leo Perskie FDR Presidential Library & Museum - CT 09-109(1)

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
ES_Deflection - Reynard Seidel
ES_Firework Mortar 9 - SFX Producer
ES_March Of The Brave 9 - Rannar Sillard
ES_On the Edge of Change - Brightarm Orchestra
ES_Rush of Blood - Reynard Seidel
ES_Secret Cargo - Craft Case
ES_Split Decision - Rannar Sillard
ES_Success or Death - Ruiqi Zhao
ES_Super Hero - Bonnie Grace
ES_The Merchants Prayer - Lama House
ES_The Thin Line - Hampus Naeselius

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