202 Free Images of Mariana Islands

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Navy Corpsman Bartolocci, attached to a Marine unit on Sai…
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Tinian, August 25, 1944: Marines manning a field howitzer …
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Marines use native ox and cart to haul ammunition to artillery position. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Marine tanks assist in the final phase of the battle on Ma…
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Marines of 2nd Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, come off of …
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2nd Marine Division replacements move up to the front line…
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Two Marines carry a wounded buddy into a field dressing st…
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This Marine blends well into the heavy brush around him as…
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Marines stand by to pick off Japanese soldiers flushed out…
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Jap snipers make it hot for an officer of the 2nd Marine D…
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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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After a nine-day battle, U.S. Marines threw back the Japs …
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Babelthuap airfield aerial photo 1945
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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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1000 yards back of the frontlines, Marines of the 18th Assault Engineers commandeer native ox and cart for transportation.
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SC 405068 - An American soldier carries a half-starved child too weak to walk.
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Enemy anti-tank guns accounted for these two tanks burning…
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Marines held up by sniper fire near the north end of Saipa…
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Viewed through the window of a wrecked building, a Marine …
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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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"H" Hour Marines hit the beach and the deck (fall flat) under fire of Jap guns on Saipan.
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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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SC 405069 - Jap civilian prisoners taken at Magicienne bay. 19 June, 1944.
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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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Marines, just back from the Saipan front lines, take advan…
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Flame throwers and demolition men move up to the cliffs an…
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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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SC 405071 - An abandoned Japanese baby is adopted by a front line medical unit of the 27th Division.
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Use of 2-wheeled native ox-drawn carts to haul ammo and supplies.
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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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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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PFC H.E. Huggins, PFC P.W. Glass, PFC J.W. Warner, and PFC…
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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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Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., attached …
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SC 396939 - Four infantrymen read mail received during the fighting on Saipan.
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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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Oxen and cart move up supplies for the 23rd Marines along road leading to Jap positions. Saipan. June, 1944.
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Marine machine gun team set up in the cover of a cliff on …
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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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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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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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Marine officers talk to scouts up ahead of them over walkie-talkie on Green Beach 2. Saipan. 15 June, 1944.
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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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A Marine light flame-throwing tank cuts loose on some Japa…
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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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"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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Scene on Green Beach 2, at 0840, D-Day. Sgt. Matjasic was wounded while taking these pictures. 15 June, 1944.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a setting of aspen-like trees on the front lines at Sai…
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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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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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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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Combat correspondent Sgt. Charles R. Vandergriff, 24 Riddle Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, holding souvenir he "pigged" up. 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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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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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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These Marine gunners firing a round from a 37-mm gun at Ja…
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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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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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At a Japanese well on the island of Saipan, Coast Guardsme…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aboard a Coast Guard-manned landing barge, Marines and the…
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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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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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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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Marines give first aid treatment to a wounded comrade as a…
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There's desperation in the face of this Marine as he summo…
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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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Driven back from the beaches of Saipan, Japanese soldiers …
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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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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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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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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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