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Marines in battle

Wartime post office

US Cemetery, Saipan

Marines in battle, destroyed houses

Smoke billows up from explosion, houses in foreground

Marines firing guns

Dead Japanese soldier in front of tank

Ruins of the sugar cane factory, railroad tracks

Marines carry dead

Explosions on coast

Marines behind truck

Landing craft

Marines on beach, landing craft, ironwood tree

Different shot, same subject as previous photo [Ref No. 1-19]

Marine monkey-shines. The natives carry the food to their huts in these straw baskets. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

61 year old Chamorro woman on Saipan looks over some of the photographs being displayed by T/Sgt. Don Brown [See "more images" below for complete caption]

The color guard of the Samoan Fita Fita Guard stand in front of their barracks.

Islanders rescue a U.S. Navy pilot after he made an emergency landing with his seaplane in their lagoon. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

U.S. troops lead Kwajalein people along the beach for evacuation to nearby Enilapkan Island. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Caught in the tides of battle, Papuans who had lived under Japanese occupation for two years are here picked up and transported to Allied positions by the U.S. 158th infantry.

Evacuation of natives of Green Island, of New Ireland, to a place of safety is shown in this series of pictures. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Natives of Saipan, ferreted out of the hills by Marines of the 2nd Regiment, are assisted unto [sic] a truck to be transported behind the front lines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Saipanese questioned by U.S. Marines during combat