WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Fighting; Natives; Captured Airfield, Jun44

WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Fighting; Natives; Captured Airfield, Jun44 Slate: 2nd Marine Division. 12:41:58 Marines resting under shade of jungle tree; single file up hill carrying ammunition crates, bay behind. 12:42:23 Burned building & smoking haystack or ??. 12:42:43 Marines loading & firing rocket launcher. 12:43:13 Slate: Cpl H.L. McClue, Jr. 5th Amphibious Corps, Saipan, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division. Jun44. 12:43:16 soft focus, Tanks across fields, explosions on hillside in front; marines on ground. Smoke opposite. 12:44:14 Tanks thru tall grass. 12:44:34 Slate: same. 12:44:35 LVTs & marines along beach; DUKW in water. soft focus; tanks moving inland. 12:45:05 Crane mounted on bulldozer along edge of water, followed by half-track; marines on sand & moving about. Plane overhead & smoke rising. 12:45:27 Marines march along beach. Formation of planes overhead thru clouds. 12:45:44 Marines on beach (dark & grainy). 12:45:56 Slate: same. Pan ships anchored offshore, landing craft & marine sin surf. 12:46:27 View to ships from hillside, pan. Pan w/ plane making bombing run along foot of mountains. 12:46:50 MCU burned Japanese. 12:47:00 Pan coastline to hills. MS Smoking American tank. Japanese fighter plane over low. 12:47:17 Slate: Same. 12:47:18 Large burning fire & smoke from bombs. 12:47:42 Legs of body exposed from dirt & rubble. Black. 12:48:36 Slate: same. Bomb explosions & fire. 12:48:46 Natives, men, women & children up hillside towards camera, under guard. Woman w/ injured child, all looking starved. Moving past, MCU. 12:49:45 LS across coast valley w/ tanks & LVTs. 12:49:57 Slate: same. 12:49:59 Marines across field. Marine & native man looking at badly damaged sedan in field. Marines in field. Pan destroyed village or Japanese emplacement on hillside. MCU marines talking ; moving thru large emplacement. 12:51:19 Slate: same. 12:51:20 Metal skeleton of large hanger; other partially destroyed buildings w/ wind blowing camouflage cloth. Marines working on airfield. MCU of rippling cloth over airport buildings. Other buildings WW2 Pacific Islands Marines; Military; Fighting; Invasion; Embarking;