192 Free Photos of Mariana Islands

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Tinian, August 25, 1944: Marines manning a field howitzer …
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SC 335369 - Saipan. This tank crew used 2″ bomb throwers for protection to escape from enemy territory during the battle for the island.
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A Marine takes a drink of milk just obtained from the cow beside him. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Living off the enemy: These men were observed going across fields to their own unit by ox cart.
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"H" Hour Marines hit the beach and the deck (fall flat) under fire of Jap guns on Saipan.
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The mortar platoon of Lt. Col. A. A. Vandegrift, Jr., Washington, D.C., making use of Jap ox and carts.
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SC 405073 - Saipan. Army medics give Chomoros vaccinations in one of the many small villages. July, 1944.
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SC 405068 - An American soldier carries a half-starved child too weak to walk.
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A Marine aboard ship enroute to Okinawa with the Second Division is shown placing his lifejacket on his "pal".
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SC 405069 - Jap civilian prisoners taken at Magicienne bay. 19 June, 1944.
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1000 yards back of the frontlines, Marines of the 18th Assault Engineers commandeer native ox and cart for transportation.
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Enemy anti-tank guns accounted for these two tanks burning…
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Marines, just back from the Saipan front lines, take advan…
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Babelthuap airfield aerial photo 1945
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Marines held up by sniper fire near the north end of Saipa…
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Flame throwers and demolition men move up to the cliffs an…
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Viewed through the window of a wrecked building, a Marine …
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After a nine-day battle, U.S. Marines threw back the Japs …
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Thought to be the first Japanese war dog captured in the Pacific theater of war, this thoroughbred German Shepard was taken by Marines behind the frontlines during the battle for Saipan Island.
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Members of the 8th Marines who came in on the 5th wave, just after landing on the beach. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.
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Use of 2-wheeled native ox-drawn carts to haul ammo and supplies.
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SC 405071 - An abandoned Japanese baby is adopted by a front line medical unit of the 27th Division.
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Fourth Division Marines set up their 75-mm howitzers near …
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Wounded Marine gets first aid right on the front line duri…
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Marine Private First Class Louis P. Hart, of 603 East Clem…
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U.S. Marines help a Japanese soldier from a dugout on Tini…
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PFC H.E. Huggins, PFC P.W. Glass, PFC J.W. Warner, and PFC…
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This Marine, wounded in the opening stages of the fierce s…
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SC 405064 - Saipan. Captured natives are guarded by MPs and given rations prior to their removal to internment camp. 17 June, 1944.
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SC 374816 - Saipan. Members of an anti-straggler patrol pinned down by Jap sniper fire during the clean-up operations.
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Major Thomas Gaines, of New Braunsfels, Texas in frontline foxhole with officers of his engineering unit. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Oxen and cart move up supplies for the 23rd Marines along road leading to Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944.
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SC 396939 - Four infantrymen read mail received during the fighting on Saipan.
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Marine machine gun team set up in the cover of a cliff on …
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Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., attached …
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Scene on Green Beach 2, at 0840, D-Day. Sgt. Matjasic was wounded while taking these pictures. 15 June, 1944.
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Swing Shift? It appears that one Marine is relieving another on the beach at Saipan but they are really crawling, under enemy fire, to their assigned positions.
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3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, and oxen pulling their ammunition, march along road toward Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Marines of the assault wave on the beach. Stretchers have already been brought into play, although the battle is only a few minutes old.
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Tractors and tanks landing the first day. Wounded being evacuated and men digging in for the first night. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.
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Marine officers talk to scouts up ahead of them over walkie-talkie on Green Beach 2. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.
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"Back to the hills" was the order, and "Nanny" the goat and her two kids had to bow before the needs of war. Saipan. January, 1945.
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A Marine light flame-throwing tank cuts loose on some Japa…
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SC 335370 - Illinois men watch other Illini make biscuits, following the battle on Saipan.
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Planning the attack: Here, the Marine commanding officer of a unit about to attack goes over the plans with his platoon leaders and squad leaders.
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Signaling position for landing of LVTs on northern Saipan beach is Marine Pfc. Baldwin Ford, 1424 Richmond Rd., So. Euchlid, Ohio.
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Planning the attack: Here, the Marine commanding officer of a unit about to attack goes over the plans with his platoon leaders and squad leaders.
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General's son: Lt. Col. A. A. Vandegrift, son of Marine Corps Commandant, relaxes at the frontlines after a skirmish with the Japs. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Brigadier Gen. Graves B. Erskine, Commanding General of northern landing troops and his staff, wade ashore on the island to set up a command post on D plus 2. 17 June, 1944.
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Loading of the Little Boy nuclear bomb into the Boeing B-29 on Tinian, Mariana Island, 5 August 1945 (76048611)
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In a setting of aspen-like trees on the front lines at Sai…
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3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines, with oxen utilized to carry their gear and ammunition, march along road towards Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Marines of the first wave, landing on the beach at Saipan, crawl forward for protective covering while waiting for additional waves of green-garbed Leathernecks to land.
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Marines come ashore, wading through surf as LSTs and smaller landing boats are hung up on coral, in left background. Saipan. June, 1944.
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SC 335415 - John Schempf of Passaic, N.J., questions Joe Perez, native of Guam who escaped from Jap prison camp. 25 July, 1944.
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Marines attached to 23rd Marines rest at front after attacking Jap positions. Goats rummage among banana trees to the right. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Lt. Col. J. L. Chambers, Tobeck Ave., Washington, D.C., of the 25th Marines, in the second wave to hit Saipan, as he is shown aboard an LSVP.
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Salvage unit of 2nd Marine Division. More than 250 weapons and 30,000 pieces of clothing and equipment were salvaged by this unit. Saipan. July, 1944.
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Pvt. Ben Lucas of 942 Green Bay Ave., Calumet, Ill. with a Jap ox and cart that he uses to haul ammunition on Saipan. June, 1944.
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Combat correspondent Sgt. Charles R. Vandergriff, 24 Riddle Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, holding souvenir he "pigged" up. Saipan. June, 1944.
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These Marine gunners firing a round from a 37-mm gun at Ja…
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SC 405012 - A Marine carries a Japanese boy out of a cave, after he was forced to shoot the boy's father who chose to fight rather than surrender.
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SC 405065 - American soldiers pass out K rations to native children. Small Japanese boy in foreground seems happy with his share.
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At a Japanese well on the island of Saipan, Coast Guardsme…
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Japanese plane shot down
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Dug in on the beach: Shallow foxholes dug and communications set up, (black rods in the foreground are antennas for portable radios), and the first wave of Marines to hit the beach at Saipan are there to stay.
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Pigs forage in front of wrecked Jap tank knocked out by Marine grenade and bazooka fire. Another Jap tank is in background. 16 June, 1944.
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USS Kidd (DD-661) underway off Roi on 12 June 1944
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Col. Franklin A. Hart (sitting) commander of the 24th Marines of Eufala, Alabama, talks over the frontline situation with one of his front line officers Major Fricke, Richmond, Virginia.
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Bringing home the chicken: Pfc. Michael Sigal, Jersey City, N.J., and Pvt. Vincent Tavano, Bronx N.Y. swing a chicken as they head along railroad tracks toward a roasting pit.
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Originator of the idea to use ox-drawn carts to haul ammo, water and medical supplies to U.S. Marines fighting fighting in the hills of Saipan where modern trucks and jeeps could not go...
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There's desperation in the face of this Marine as he summo…
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American troops, their landing boat 50 yards from the water's edge, wade ashore, rifles and other weapons carried overhead, joining the assault as reinforcements on beaches of Saipan, 1st day of the attack.
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Corporal James F. Allen, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Allen, RFD 1, South Windham, Maine, holds a bleating kid found on Saipan. 7 August, 1944.
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Cpl. William B. Johnson, 20, (866706), 1419 Galveston St., Laredo, Texas; Pfc. Derwood E. Pelton, 24, (476099), 814 So. Gevers St., San Antonio, Texas.
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Marines give first aid treatment to a wounded comrade as a…
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Aboard a Coast Guard-manned landing barge, Marines and the…
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U.S. Marines started using two-wheeled oxen-drawn native carts to haul ammo and supplies into the hills and wounded back, over roads where even modern trucks and jeeps could not go.
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Driven back from the beaches of Saipan, Japanese soldiers …
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The Saipan Press Club opened its doors on the embattled is…
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Lt. Gen. H. M. Smith, Maj. Gen. Watson, Br. Gen., Erskins, Col. Riseley, Capt. D. V. Nahrgang (R-2) conference at 6th Marine Regiment CP. D plus 3.
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Lt. Gen. H. M. Smith, Maj. Gen. Watson, Br. Gen., Erskins, Col. Riseley, Capt. D. V. Nahrgang (R-2) conference at 6th Marine Regiment CP. D plus 3.
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Joyous Second Division Marines, about to board ship for home after more than thirty months overseas, were not forgotten by the famed division mascot "Eight Ball", who was on hand to bid them a sorrowful goodbye.
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Coast Guard and Navy invaders display two Japanese flags w…
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A Marine automatic rifleman fires his weapon 3-400 yards beyond our frontline to protect some wounded Marines in the same hole with him, who are being fired upon by the Japs. Saipan. June, 1944.
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SC 405070 - American soldiers rescue Jap infant from small ledge partway up a steep rockpile along Nafuta ridge, bringing it down from its dangerous perch where it apparently was left by its parents.
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Smashed by a direct hit from Jap shore batteries at Saipan…
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The U.S. Marines salute the U.S. Coast Guard after the fur…
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