John Henry was 19 the summer he spent at the Battle of Saipan where over 3000 Marines died and another 10,000 were wounded. I was only 6 years old in the summer of 1970, the year he died, but I can remember him playing the guitar and singing a song called, "The Saipan Blues".
John Henry was 19 the summer he spent at the Battle of Saipan where over 3000 Marines died and another 10,000 were wounded. I was only 6 years old in the summer of 1970, the year he died, but I can remember him playing the guitar and singing a song called, "The Saipan Blues".
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