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Old Japanese Jail
This Jail was used by the Japanese from its construction in 1929 up to the day the Battle of Saipan began. Part of the wall surrounding the jail still stands.

The wall shows the scars of countless bullet holes and bigger blasts, perhaps from American tanks. Inside the walls are two jail blocks. The larger of the two is on the right with 16 cells and was used for the male prisoners. The smaller cell row on the left with 4 cells was possibly for the women. It is rumored that Amelia Earhart was kept prisoner in this building for the last months of her life. Between the cellblocks are the quarters and offices for the guards. You can still walk through the hallway connecting the jail cells and imagine how terrible the living conditions must have been for the prisoners.

If you have any photos of this jail during or before WWII please send me a scan. E-Mail Me Thanks.

Small cell bolck. (Behind the goat.)

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Hallway of main cell block.

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Inside a cell.

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Cafeteria / torture building.

Tank blasts to the surrounding wall.

US soldiers scratched their names on the hallway wall outside the cells during the Battle of Saipan,

"J.A. Beiser June 15 / 44"

"Bill Warner

Newark New Jersey"

Japanese writing prisoners counted down the days on the inside cells walls.

"Gantnan
Brooklyn"

"John Ohetto"

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