WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Marines Moving, Fighting, Landing

WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: Marines Moving, Fighting, Landing Slate: 15May44 Capt De Vinna. NOTE: shutter problem until-- 11:42:29 Marine holding plasma bottle while others beside wounded behind bushes. 11:42:37 Beach, men along w/ beached landing craft behind 11:42:49 Native women & children in concrete ??. Men behind barbed wire under canvas. 11:43:05 Men unloading & stacking crates from LVT. 11:43:16 Destroyed buildings, pan over. Pan across ground covered w/ barrels & metal containers . 11:43:55 Marines on LVT along dirt road or field edge. View up narrow gage railroad track past barrel of Japanese artillery 11:44:05 Pan across marines digging graves . 11:44:15 Marines guarding natives walking along road, mostly women & children. Large American tank past in opposite direction up white sand road. 11:44:50 Large group of unid. military in white helmets & leggings assembled beside road. Piled stack of duffel bags and rolled mattresses. Line of empty army trucks. Marines loading bedrolls & duffels into trucks. Men climb aboard, drive off. Pan across trucks near water; men unload duffels & to LVTs; LVTs thru water to ships offshore. GOOD sequence. 11:47:16 Slate: 23rd Marines Embarkiong at Maui. Camera Ludka. 13May44 . 11:47:28 Line of landing craft single file out to ships. 11:47:34 View towards shore, heavy smoke rising; small boat past towards shore, pan from rocking boat along mountains w/ smoke rising at foot on shore. Landing craft heading into shore, explosions around. DUKWs thru waves. 11:48:59 Dark foliage, marines passing thru; heavy smoke rising beyond. Giving plasma to wounded in brush. WW2 Pacific Islands Marines Daily Life; Military; Fighting; Invasion;