World War Two

Season 6, Episode 28

Episode Title: Week 255 - Mass Suicide on Saipan - WW2 - July15, 1944

Air Date: 2023-07-15

Overview:

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.