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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.
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.
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.
Home after a raid: A Marine Grunman fighter plane comes home to roost at the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands airfield after feeding the Japs hot bullets.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Cpl. William B. Johnson, 20, (866706), 1419 Galveston St.,  Laredo, Texas; Pfc. Derwood E. Pelton, 24, (476099), 814 So. Gevers St., San Antonio, Texas.
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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CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti -- Marines with Company A, Command Logistics Element, Marine Central Command, practice their speed and accuracy with M16-A2 service rifles during a “Presentation of Weapons” exercise March 24. The Marines, here supporting Combined
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.
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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