Saipan Invasion: Beachhead; Wrecked Installations; Japanese POWs, 06/14/1944 - 06/15/1944 (full)

Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Naval Photographic Center film #4392. National Archives description “1) GV Task force repels air attack, guns fire, flak bursts SV.2) MS Corpsmen attend casualty; Japanese prisoners interviewed.3) MS MCU Field radio operator, Marine digs foxhole.4) MS Marine carrys wounded Japanese child.5) MS MCU Men with Japanese flag, officers & men study map.6) GV Japanese railroad wrecked by bombardment.7) GV LVT knocked out by Japanese mortar fire.8) GV LVTs cross captured air strip (very hazy).9) MCU Dead Marine on beach, man covers ) GV Checking names of dead Marines before ) MS Marines look at souvenir ) GV MS Men carry 75MM ammunition, unload LVT on ) GV-Pan View of beach, LVT underway, fire BG; wrecked American tanks and Japanese ) GV Surf breaks over stranded tank; LCMs take supplies ashore; transport area.“ National Archives Identifier: 77094
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