U.S. Marines hunt Japanese snipers on Saipan Island.
U.S. Marines hunt Japanese snipers on Saipan Island. Three dead Japanese soldiers (foreground) lie on a shell-torn portion of Saipan Island, in the Marianas group of the Central Pacific, where American Marines hunt enemy snipers. U.S. infantrymen who stormed ashore on the Central Pacific island on June 14, 1944, had occupied half of Saipan loss than one week after their landings, in spite of bitter resistance by Japanese ...
