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1944/06 -
Saipan - 25th Marines, 4th Marine division
MS civilian missionary walks among Marines in combat dress
MS different angle same
PAN same
MS Marines pass missionary walking down road
MS Marines coming down road towards camera
MS Marines moving away from camera
LS column of Marines coming along trail
MLS three Marines carry dead Marine wrapped in poncho
MLS same - they carry it up to the side of trailer beside Jeep
MCU put body in to trailer
MCU body in trailer
MS four Marines lift up body on poncho
PAN as they carry body on poncho to trailer
MS PAN same
LS dead Japanese soldiers lying in open field
MCU, MS, MCU same
MLS several Marines standing around group of dead on open field
CU mutilated body on ground
MS Marines firing 37mm anti tank gun out right frame
LS Marines looking through observation spotting scope
MS Marines looking through large binoculars on tripod
LS PAN of SBD taking off from runway
LS PAN same
LS PAN of rows of SBDs lined up on air strip. L-5 prepares for landing overhead
LS L-5 lands on field
LS P47s lining up on runway
MLS SBDs taxi past camera
MLS SBD taking off
LS PAN P47 take off
LSLA P47s overhead
LS PAN of SBD landing on field
LS PAN SBD takes off
MS P47s on field
MLS different angle same. Ground crew waits nearby

1944/06/27
Saipan - 4th Marines
LS railway locomotive towing a string of flat cars. Marines ride on flat cars
MS, MLS same
LS locomotive coming to head of track
CU rails are laid and spikes are driven in to cross ties
MS Marine driving spikes in to ties
MS same
CU some track is taken up with crow bar
MS same
MS Marine loosening rail
MCU same
MS rail is lifted with crow bar. Marine carries it toward truck in BG
CU spikes are driven through rails in to railroad ties
MS Marines doing the same
CU gravel is shoveled around ties
MCU same
Photog: Kennedy