This film was created for the "Marianas Peoples" exhibition, courtesy of the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, held on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota in 2019. It shows hitherto unseen scenes of civilians on the battlefields in the summer of 1944. The raw footage was collected from the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The moving images are invaluable testimonies of what our elders experienced. The creators hope that viewers will learn from these past events to build a more peaceful future.
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