PREVIEW: #SAIPAN: Conversation with colleague Cleo Paskal of FDD in Saipan of the Northern Mariana Islands re the 80th anniversary of the USMC, USN, USA landings and liberation of Saipan from the Imperial Japanese Empire -- on Green Beach on June 15. More
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Cleopascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 0:06.0 | She's on Garipad, the capital of Saipan. |
| 0:10.0 | This is the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana's. |
| 0:13.0 | Why? Celebrating, remembering anniversary, 80 years since the Second Marines, the Fourth Marines in a U.S. Army division with the Navy invaded Saipan in order to establish the |
| 0:26.3 | airfield that put the B-29 in reach of Tokyo and other Japanese cities leading to the end of the Second War, June of 44, 80 years later. |
| 0:37.0 | Cleo has much to say at the same time about the people of the Northern Marianiana's and the fact that they are neighbors of the Japanese. |
| 0:47.0 | This is America and Asia. Cleo Pascal explaining the Saipan, where she is right now for the 80th anniversary |
| 0:55.5 | celebration more of this later thank you so it is |
| 0:59.4 | twice is from where I am it's twice as far to get to Hawaii than it is to get to Japan or Manila or Taiwan. |
| 1:09.0 | And in fact, the main tourism group currently in Saipan are kind of a sort of package holiday type |
| 1:19.3 | tourists coming from Korea. |
| 1:22.1 | This is Saipan, the United States and Japan share a border here in the |
| 1:28.5 | Commonwealth of Northern Marianas. This is where the United States touches the Asian coast. |
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