US Marines at Saipan -15mm Wargame Video

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Bloody Pacific: Marines on Saipan – 80th Anniversary Wargame (Part 2)

June 30, 2024

We’re back to finish up our wargame commemorating the 80^th Anniversary of the Marine landing on Saipan (15 June 1944).

We started this game last week, recreating part of 2^nd Bn/ 6^th Marines’ assault on Red One beach on Saipan, part of Operation Forager in the Mariana Islands. So far, the Leathernecks have taken one hell of a pounding getting ashore, with almost 50% losses among their LVT-2 Amptracks and infantry platoons.

But now the (surviving) Marines are ashore, and the Japanese are about to learn to their cost just how well-equipped Marine assault units can actually be. Can the Marines overcome the bloodbath at the game’s outset and secure a foothold on this critical objective?