U.S. Marines move up the beach on Saipan under heavy machine gun fire,during landing operations at the islands of the Mariana group.

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 U.S. Fourth Division Marines move in from the beach on Iwo Jima.A dead Marine lies at right in the foreground.Mt.Suribachi,in the background,was turned into a beehive of guns by Japanese troops.

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After three days of fighting on the front lines on Munda,a Marines tank crew a rest,during which their machine guns are overhauled.This platoon wiped out 30 Japanese pill boxes.