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Within the pantheon of great World Warfare II conflicts, the struggle for Saipan is often neglected. Yet historian Donald Miller message or calls it "as important to win over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to win over Germany." For the People in the usa, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of any Time mag correspondent, Saipan was "war at its grimmest". On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest Ruler and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Dock Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just 35 mls northeast of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, exploded with a push nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were mainly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity launching munitions ships with ordnance essential to the U.S. win in Saipan. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men designed for their country, the Navy blamed them for the incident, so when they refused to handle ammunition again, launched the most significant mutiny trial in U.S. naval background. The Color of Warfare, then, is the storyline of two fights, the one international and the other on America's home turf. By weaving alongside one another these two narratives for the first time ever, the author hopes to color a more appropriate picture of the cataclysmic happenings that happened in July 1944 - the month that won the warfare and altered America.
