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Description:Marines land on the Marianas. Marines of the first wave, landing on the beach at Saipan, crawl forward for protective covering while waiting for additional waves of green garbed Leatherneck fighters to land. This first wave landed with little opposition but had to fight down Japanese opposition against the following waves (#83222, National Archives).
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