WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Marine Leader & Advancing; Dead Japs; Airstrip; Rebuilding Railroad

WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Marine Leader & Advancing; Dead Japs; Airstrip; Rebuilding Railroad Slate: Jun44. Camera: PFC A.S. Abramo, 25th Marines 4th Marine Division, Saipan, Roll 10. 03:01:13 Officer talking to marines on hill top w/ bay & ocean behind, gives them all a pat & they walk off; marching along narrow dirt road past camera. GOOD. 03:03:36 Slate: same. Roll 63 03:03:43 Four marines carry body (Japanese?) in canvas, put in trailer & get another with tarp & carry to trailer. 03:04:55 Slate: same. Roll 69. 03:05:02 Two dead Japanese soldiers laying in grass. CU. Head or buried body. Flies on dead. Marines standing & looking at one body. 03:06:16 Marines w/ artillery in tall grass/ 03:06:28 Marines looking thru Jap telescope. 03;06:42 Fighter plane taking off from airstrip. Spotter plane landing past parked aircraft. Fighter plane taxiing, overhead; taking off, wheels up. Landing. 03:08:00 Slate: illegible except Roll G-2 4 Marine Division. 03:08:04 Fighter plane overhead; landing behind parked planes. MCU taking off. Crew sititng in front of plane. 03:09:00 Narrow gauge steam engine pulling flat cars w/ troops riding on loads. 03:09:42 MCU Man swinging sledge hammer repairing tracks; nailing rails to ties. 03:10:16 Slate: 27Jun44. Camera: Sgt. J.W. Kennedy Jr. Roll 34. 03:10:21 Man working on tracks, tightening bolts; replacing rails; pounding spikes. Shoveling rocks / ballast. WW2 Pacific Islands; Fighting; Battles; Horrors of War; Rebuilding;