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Everyone remembers December 7th—but few know what happened at Pearl Harbor’s West Loch just months before the Invasion of Saipan. On May 21, 1944, a catastrophic chain of explosions ripped through a fleet of U.S. LSTs loaded with troops, tanks, fuel, and ammunition—killing over 160 men and wounding hundreds more.

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