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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1688889" data-attributes="member: 3144">'Saipan Landings - 15th June 1944' Marines of the 2nd Marine Division are crawling under enemy fire to their assigned positions. The wet 'Leatherneck' took a dunking when the landing craft he came in on was hit by Japanese mortar fire.The landings began at 07:00 on 15th June 1944. More than 300 LVTs landed 8,000 Marines on the west coast of Saipan by about 09:00. Eleven fire support ships covered the Marine landings. The naval force consisted of the battleships Tennessee and California. The cruisers were Birmingham and Indianapolis. The destroyers were Norman Scott, Monssen, Colahan, Halsey Powell, Bailey, Robinson and Albert W. Grant. Careful Japanese artillery preparation — placing flags in the lagoon to indicate the range — allowed them to destroy about 20 amphibious tanks, and the Japanese strategically placed barbed wire, artillery, machine gun emplacements, and trenches to maximize the American casualties. However, by nightfall the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions had a beachhead about 6 mi (10 km) wide and 0.5 mi (1 km) deep.DEFENSE DEPT PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) 83260Colourised by Paul Reynolds.<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/1534755_623553827774413_367687764833658937_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1688889, member: 3144"] 'Saipan Landings - 15th June 1944' Marines of the 2nd Marine Division are crawling under enemy fire to their assigned positions. The wet 'Leatherneck' took a dunking when the landing craft he came in on was hit by Japanese mortar fire. The landings began at 07:00 on 15th June 1944. More than 300 LVTs landed 8,000 Marines on the west coast of Saipan by about 09:00. Eleven fire support ships covered the Marine landings. The naval force consisted of the battleships Tennessee and California. The cruisers were Birmingham and Indianapolis. The destroyers were Norman Scott, Monssen, Colahan, Halsey Powell, Bailey, Robinson and Albert W. Grant. Careful Japanese artillery preparation — placing flags in the lagoon to indicate the range — allowed them to destroy about 20 amphibious tanks, and the Japanese strategically placed barbed wire, artillery, machine gun emplacements, and trenches to maximize the American casualties. However, by nightfall the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions had a beachhead about 6 mi (10 km) wide and 0.5 mi (1 km) deep. DEFENSE DEPT PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) 83260 Colourised by Paul Reynolds. [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/1534755_623553827774413_367687764833658937_o.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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