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Show Marine Corps Veterans Attack SaFpanV ! ' ,V 4 ' ' ' - ' t - , - , " i, ! ' ; i ft r - " y t ' . fj': , f -.. .. , , -- ,.. . ..:':Si6&;j;!J. ...... ' 1 i " -f -jr t I -" ' , - k ' . V 4 ' r MX Sif rf1 - .fCI JwSjJU Marines spearheaded the attack on heavily fortified Saipan and lgp2 suffered the major share 'of casualties. Typical scenes, recorded by jkrt Marine combat photographers during the first few days of landing-, jMfvi. show the beachhead; Leathernecks washing- at a captured reser- I W voir; a gutted American tank; digging in for stands on the beach; jS-Slk and farther inland a mortar crew in action and last, a final fare- I well to fallen comrades. Saipan, like Tarawa, exacted a heavy toll v J9 y on the Marine ass1" forces, who after the initial landing never sSft. took a backward step. |