The virtual World War II museum inside the American Memorial Park Visitor Center has flashing lights, booming sounds and a narration of what transpired during the Battle on Saipan.
The museum will also give you a glimpse of what life in the islands was during the war.
Pick up a telephone receiver and press a button to hear accounts of the war from different individuals.
Leaf through the printed laminated pages of first person accounts of residents recalling the horrors they experienced as their home became the site of one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific.
The museum displays cannon shells and casings, helmets, armor-piercing artillery shells, grenades, boxes and crates used to house ammunition, dinner plates and water canteens some of them with shrapnel holes, sniper hats, rifle shells, caliber rifle cartridges, and everything else.
Name it and you have it there — all mute witnesses to the horrors of war and in memory of those who lost their lives.
The virtual World War II museum gets a fair share of visitors both locals and tourists every day.
Some tourists, especially those from Japan, get sentimental and shed tears as they tour the museum.
The Visitor Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Admission is free. For more information, call 234-7207, fax 234-6698, or email amme_administration@nps.gov.
