American forces fought for control of the island during World War II, in a grueling battle that lasted from June 15 to July 9, 1944
Saipan is the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands - though it’s hardly sprawling at just under 20 km in length and half that at its widest. Its
![[Map] Map of the Battle of Saipan Jun 15 through July 9, 1944](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/ef/69/49ef699deab63a50d954b236f6a4b80f.jpg)
[Map] Map of the Battle of Saipan Jun 15 through July 9, 1944
American forces fought for control of the island during World War II, in a grueling battle that lasted from June 15 to July 9, 1944
Saipan is the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands - though it’s hardly sprawling at just under 20 km in length and half that at its widest. Its
Black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan in 1944.
U.S. Marines stand in a foxhole near the front lines of combat on Saipan, July 1, 1944. Navy photo
Black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan in 1944.
Saipan is the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands - though it’s hardly sprawling at just under 20 km in length and half that at its widest. Its
Black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan in 1944.
In the 1940s about 20,000 men trained on racially segregated Montford Point in North Carolina. Some of the 300 surviving Marines recently returned for the reopening of a restored museum honoring them.
![[Photo] US Marines making use of a locally commandeered ox and ox cart to transport supplies, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/c8/a8/72c8a86d531e7612ef648aaec3922a55.jpg)
[Photo] US Marines making use of a locally commandeered ox and ox cart to transport supplies, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944
I am proud to say I was born and raised in Memphis, TN - home of Elvis, the Blues, and the best BBQ on the planet. (Sorry St. Louis, Kansas, and North Carolina - but it's true. And Texas, Y'all are beef. We ain't including you in a pork discussion.) While Memphis is legendary for Beale
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Higgins Boat troop carrier that took a direct hit during the amphibious assault in the Battle for the island of Saipan - abandoned, higgins, boat, troop, carrier, direct, amphibious, assault, battle, island, saipan. Photorator photo.
Banzai Cliff is also known as Suicide Cliff, and was the site of a massive group suicide that took place during World War II.
Once the shock of finding out we were relocating from Memphis, Tennessee to Saipan wore off, I spent the next several days doing as much research as I could on our new island home. Turns out all those hours on Google/Youtube/Reddit/Pinterest amounted to not much information at all. For a myriad of reasons, Saipan is a
War inevitably equals mass casualties, whether numbering in the dozens or the hundreds, or the hundreds of thousands – this a truth that has accompanied
80-G-287188: Battle of Saipan, Jun-Jul 1944. Wrecked Japanese tank found in the hills by U.S. Forces, July 8, 1944. Photographed by USS Indianapolis (CA 35) photographer. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/03/21).
![WW2 Colourised Photos - An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. Saipan, Mariana Islands. July 1944. Image taken by 'Life' Magazine photographer -Peter Stackpole. The Aircraft is a Stinson L-5 Sentinel Liaison Light-plane. In John Loengard’s classic 1998 book, LIFE Photographers: 'What They Saw', Stackpole (the photographer) discusses the picture above, and how he came to make it: On Saipan I witnessed suicides during the very last of the fighting at the south end of the island. Japanese propaganda had told the native population that they ought to take their own lives because the Americans were going to torture anyone they captured. That wasn’t the case at all, but I saw girls, all holding hands, jump off the reef in the ocean, trying to drown themselves. In a truckload of civilians that the Marines had rounded up, I saw a little Japanese kid with his arm badly mangled and some makeshift bandages on it. The kid was about to go into a state of shock, and just then one of those observation planes landed on the road. I took the boy over to the plane and said to the pilot, “Is there any way you can take this kid . . . where he can get medical treatment?” He didn’t want to at first. Then he looked at the kid and said, “Sure.” The kid sat on his lap, I took one picture, and the plane took off. (Nb. in the pic the boy is actually in the rear seat and with An American Soldier) Hours later, when I got back to press headquarters, my colleagues from the 'Chicago Tribune' and the 'Chicago Daily News'—friends of mine—said, “You should have been here when that pilot brought that kid in. What a picture!” “I know all about it” I said. And I was denounced for doing it. LOENGARD: Denounced? STACKPOLE: Robert Sherrod, a 'Time-Life' correspondent, let it be known that I had staged a phoney and [he] got it killed, I think. The picture never ran, but if I had it to do today, I would do it over again. (Colourised by Doug) http://www.colourisehistory.com](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/27/54/fe27548acef444babab81c90233cd081.png)
"An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field...
