World War II Photograph

In go the landing barges, loaded with Yankee fighters and manned by Coast Guardsmen, to seep the beaches of Saipan and thrust the Japanese defenders, fighting frantically, back into the cane fields and ravines of Saipan, Japanese stronghold in the Marianas. Standing off the coast is a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, from which the invasion “buggies” swarm to shore.