12-235 Garand Picture of the day - US invasion of Saipan.

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The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June – 9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was launched. The U.S. 2nd Marine Division, 4th Marine Division, and 27th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Holland Smith, defeated the 43rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Yoshitsugu Saito.


Red Beach #2 at 1300 Dday.




US invasion of Saipan.
Location:Saipan, Marianas Islands
Date taken:June 1944
Photographer:Peter Stackpole





American soldiers using a flamethrower to clear stubborn Japanese defenders from fortified tunnels in an abandoned rock quarry during the invasion of Saipan.


Location:Saipan, Marianas Islands
Date taken:July 1944
Photographer:Peter Stackpole

Peter Stackpole was an American photographer. Along with Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, and Thomas McAvoy, he was one of Life Magazine's first staff photographers. He won a George Polk Award in 1954 and taught photography at the Academy of Art University. He also wrote a column in U.S. Camera for fifteen years. He was the son of sculptor Ralph Stackpole.

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