“Saipan folded like a cheap tent when invaded. “
Really?
Bombardment of Saipan began on 13 June 1944. Fifteen battleships were involved, and 165,000 shells were fired. The invasion took over three weeks and the Japanese fought to the last man losing over 30,000 killed not including the civilians. Over 1000 Japanese civilians committed suicide in the last days of the battle.
I wasn’t talking about the American invasion in 1944, but the Japanese militarization of the island in 1941. The League of Nations Class C mandate was not supposed to include militarization, thus it was technically an invasion.