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This clip is Part 1 of a 4-part film.

INVASION OF SAIPAN: CIVILIAN & MILITARY PRISONERS; DEAD Japanese WOMEN Part 1

Description

1) GV-CU Tanks pass on road, dead Japs.2) MS Marines display Japanese flag (good).3) GV-MS Knocked-out Japanese tanks.4) GV-Pan Marines walk thru shell-damaged bldgs., rubble.5) GV Many dead Japanese by narrow-gauge railroad.6) GV-Pan LCs on beach & in surf, dead Japanese on beach.7) GV-MS Marines inspect damaged bldg. & Japanese tanks.8) CU Corpsman attends Chammorran child.9) MS Marine inspects Japanese bayonet fastened to stick.10) GV Marines attend flag raising ceremonies SV.11) MS Adm. Spruance, Gen. Smith & Gen. Jarman USA.12) MS-Pan Marines on tank drink from bottle.13) MS-CU Native women with children.14) GV-Pan Large expanse of island.15) MS Marines & Japanese prisoners.16) MS Gens. Smith & Jarman, Adms. Spruano & Hill.17) MS Japanese interpreter speaks in mike.18) MS Prisoners carry group dead Japanese women from beach-SV.

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Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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Date
1944
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TRT
3:38