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Description:Through the window. Getting their first taste of street fighting in the Pacific, Marines enter a wrecked building in Garapan, principal city of Saipan to clean out Japanese snipers hidden in the rubble. Naval and aerial bombardment leveled the town prior to its capture by the leathernecks. (USMC # 85, 172, Marine Corps Historical Center).
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