Frightened civilian women and children emerging from caves where they had hidden during battle between Japanese & American forces for control of Saipan.

Emerging from caves

Marine cradling tiny infant's barely living body which was found face down in a cave where native islanders had been hiding to escape the fighting between US and Japanese forces

Tiny infant

American bulldozer digging mass grave for some of the 2,000 Japanese who died in a final suicide banzai attack on July 7, ending the fight for Saipan.