aug 19, 1944 - US secures Marianas (Aug 1944)

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Combo of Amer “Hellcat” fighter plane & new tech of antiaircraft proximity fuse → destroyed ~250 Japanese aircraft, only 29 Amer planes lost;

Resistance w/ mass suicide leap of surviving Japanese soldiers/civilians from “Suicide Cliff” on Saipan;Following ^^ major islands of Marianas fall to US attackers (July & Aug 1944); Unsinkable aircraft carriers → round-the-clock bombing of Japan starts (Nov 1944)

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