Saipan Casualties
Photograph
Saipan Casualties
July 1944
Gelatin silver print
19.4 x 23.9 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0394
Inscriptions recto (printed logo): USMC
verso (printed): SAIPAN CASUALTIES
The twenty-five day struggle for Saipan, pivot island of the
Mariana group, cost more in Marine casualties than any other Pacific campaign,
and three times that of the battle of Tarawa. Navy doctors and corpsmen,
attached to the Marine units, came ashore with their outfits and at the
first outbreak of fighting, began treating the wounded. As the invading
forces pushed back the enemy, field hospitals were established...
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
verso (printed): SAIPAN CASUALTIES
The twenty-five day struggle for Saipan, pivot island of the
Mariana group, cost more in Marine casualties than any other Pacific campaign,
and three times that of the battle of Tarawa. Navy doctors and corpsmen,
attached to the Marine units, came ashore with their outfits and at the
first outbreak of fighting, began treating the wounded. As the invading
forces pushed back the enemy, field hospitals were established...
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
