#OCEANIA: SAIPAN: US Navy Seabees created a Christmas Party for the war-ravaged children who survived the Battle of Saipan and Tinian, a celebration long remembered for the first time the children met Santa Claus.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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1944 Guam invasion bombardment. Cleo Paskal, FDD @cleopaskal
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| 1:02.0 | I'm John Batchel. And Cleo, the old softy, insists upon celebrating Christmas. But her celebration is |
| 1:09.7 | in 1944, something called the Last War Christmas. But her celebration is in 1944, something called the Last War Christmas. |
| 1:15.1 | It happened on many army bases across the world. That's true. But one particular army base in the |
| 1:24.7 | Northern Marianas and Guam. Cleo, the story is very carefully documented on Wikipedia. |
| 1:33.1 | I was amazed. |
| 1:33.8 | I'd never heard of this. |
| 1:34.7 | The Last War Christmas. |
| 1:37.1 | A Catholic Mass Christmas Eve on Saipan. |
| 1:40.3 | What happened? |
| 1:41.6 | This story was told to me by Marie Castro, who was about 10 years old in |
| 1:48.6 | 1944. And she, she was from Saipan. She grew up in Saipan. When she was born, Saipan was under |
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