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Saipan Collection

Background imageSaipan Collection: Map of Amelia Earhart's Path

Map of Amelia Earhart's Path
(Original Caption) San Francisco

Background imageSaipan Collection: American Marines Smoking Bushes to Run out Enemy Troops

American Marines Smoking Bushes to Run out Enemy Troops
(Original Caption) Saipan, Marianas: Smoking Out Last Japs On Saipan. When Jap snipers holed up in this cave on northern Saipan, Marine gunnery Sergeant E. L

Background imageSaipan Collection: Soldiers Arriving on Shore

Soldiers Arriving on Shore
(Original Caption) American invasion fleet is massed off shore and an army of men pours ashore to make good our drive inland on strategic Saipan Island

Background imageSaipan Collection: Sailor Carrying Tall Sandwich

Sailor Carrying Tall Sandwich
(Original Caption) 7/4/1944-Saipan, Mariana Is.: You never can tell when your comic strip education will come in handy

Background imageSaipan Collection: Slain Soldier Floating in Water

Slain Soldier Floating in Water
(Original Caption) Still wearing his helmet, the body of a Jap soldier floats in the water at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, after participating in a futile counter-attack against U.S

Background imageSaipan Collection: Marines Escorting Japanese Children

Marines Escorting Japanese Children
(Original Caption) Friendly Enemies. Saipan, Marianas: Leathernecks are tough opponents, hard fighting, asking no quarter or giving none But they are king to the beaten

Background imageSaipan Collection: Lieutenant J.G. Alexander Vraciu, Air Ace

Lieutenant J.G. Alexander Vraciu, Air Ace

Background imageSaipan Collection: Marines Move Through Rubble

Marines Move Through Rubble
(Original Caption) 7/12/1944-Saipan- Marine reinforcements move up to front through shattered outskirts of Garapan, Capital of Saipan

Background imageSaipan Collection: Marines Listen To Japanese Phonograph

Marines Listen To Japanese Phonograph
(Original Caption) 7/13/1944-Saipan, Marianas: Marines of 2nd Marine Division listen to a Japanese phonograph. L - r: Pfc. Don G. Avagni, Corp. Charles Gale, Corp. Cotton Johnson, Pfc

Background imageSaipan Collection: Marine Receiving An X-Ray at a Medical Base

Marine Receiving An X-Ray at a Medical Base
(Original Caption) Still wearing his battle togs, this Marine wounded at Saipan (the pivot island of the Marianas group) gets a foot x-ray at a medical base a short distance behind the lines

Background imageSaipan Collection: American Soldier Holding Japanese Infant

American Soldier Holding Japanese Infant
(Original Caption) 7/20/1944-Saipan Island: This tiny Jap baby being held by an American soldier, was one of the few survivors of "Death Valley

Background imageSaipan Collection: Soldier Drinking From His Canteen

Soldier Drinking From His Canteen
(Original Caption) Hot and weary after fighting on the western beaches below Saipan's Mt. Marpi, marine PFC T.E. Underwood of St. Petersburg, Fla

Background imageSaipan Collection: Burial Of Yoshige Saito

Burial Of Yoshige Saito
(Original Caption) 7/21/1944-Saipan: A flagged draped casket, bearing the boby of Lt. Gen. Yoshige of the Japanese Imperial Army, is lowered in to a grave on Saipan

Background imageSaipan Collection: Ernest J. King, Holland MCT. Smith and Chester W. Nimitz

Ernest J. King, Holland MCT. Smith and Chester W. Nimitz
(Original Caption) On his recent tour of the Pacific battle fronts, admiral Ernest J

Background imageSaipan Collection: Japanese Plane Crashing in the Pacific

Japanese Plane Crashing in the Pacific
Smoke and flame trail from a Japanese fighter plane as it falls into the Pacific near Saipan. The plane crashes between two US Navy aircraft carriers. | Location: Near Saipan

Background imageSaipan Collection: Tyrone Power Typing a Letter

Tyrone Power Typing a Letter
(Original Caption) 6/15/45-Saipan: Like all men away from home, Marine 1st Lt. Tyrone Power, former film star, spends his free time on Saipan Island typing a V-mail letter to his wife, Annabella. Lt

Background imageSaipan Collection: Sakae Oba Surrending His Sword to Colonel Kurgis

Sakae Oba Surrending His Sword to Colonel Kurgis
Japanese Imperial Army Capt. Sakae Oba surrenders his samurai sword to Lt. Col. Howard C. Kurgis, USMC, of Cawker City, Kan. on Saipan

Background imageSaipan Collection: Priest at a Grave Site

Priest at a Grave Site
A priest, Father Sylvan Conover, Order Friars Minor, prays at a grave site thought to be that of famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan

Background imageSaipan Collection: Tank Lighters

Tank Lighters
circa 1944: American tank lighters, which carry oil and gasoline, close to the shore at Charan Kanoa, on the west coast of Saipan Island


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