US Marine battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel John Weber receiving a report from a company commander, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Jan 1944.

Cape Gloucester

Marines check supplies of food and ammunition in one of the many caves that dotted the hills of Saipan Island. Numerous caves, carved into the limestone or coral rock, were used as storerooms, while others functioned as fortresses of resistance that allowed the Japanese to hold out for days after the island was secured.Saipan, 1944

Marines securing storehouse of supplies in cave 

March 19, 1944 - Guadalcanal : Marines are setting up beach markers, so they can attack inland
