Seventy five years ago, from 15 June to 9 July 1944, the Battle of Saipan was raging in the Pacific during WWII.
In May of 1967, while visiting Saipan in the Mariana Islands, I saw this old Japanese locomotive stuffed and mounted on a hillside south of the town of Garapan.
Here is a photo I found of the same locomotive while in service hauling sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mill sometime in the 1930s.
