   LVT (Landing Vehicle Track) "Buffalo" Amtracs landing on Saipan Beach, Mariana Islands, South Pacific; June 15 1944.  
  Saipan saw the massive use of the LVTs by the USMC with six battalions of cargo LVT, including the new ramped LVT-4, and two battalions of armored Amtracs, employing the new LVT(A)-4 with a 75 mm howitzer. 

Marines coming in to land

A U.S. Marine with a captured Japanese Type 92,  7.7 mm heavy machine gun; Saipan, Mariana Islands, South Pacific Ocean, 1945. 

Very reliable weapon

US Marines take up combat position on Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Islands group, Central Pacific; November, 1943. 
