D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan

List of Illustrations

illustrations Figure 1. Admiral Ernest J. King   11 Figure 2. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz   13 Figure 3. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance and Lieutenant General H. M. Smith   15 Figure 4. Admiral Nagumo Chuichi   33 Figure 5. K Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division on Saipan   62 Figure 6. Marines’ first assault wave hits Saipan beach on D-Day   75 Figure 7. Marines move to secure Saipan beaches on D-Day   85 Figure 8. Destruction in Charan Kanoa   107 Figure 9. Garapan after U.S. Navy shelling   109 Figure 10. Marines engage in house-to-house fighting in Garapan   110 Figure 11. Marines move through Garapan   118 Figure 12. U.S. flamethrower tank in action   126 Figure 13. Marines in 4th Division throwing grenades toward Japanese position    129 Figure 14. Marines in firefight on Saipan   137 Figure 15. Combat troops taking cover behind tank   149 Figure 16. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral Ernest J. King, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Major General Sanderford Jarman   155 Figure 17. Marines firing captured Japanese mountain gun   165 Figure 18. Marines moving through battle zone   168 Figure 19. Marines cover advance into Tanapag   171 Figure 20. Dead Japanese soldier near destroyed tank   174  illustrations Figure 21. Marines using demolition charge to eliminate Japanese defensive position   196 Figure 22. Marine talks with Chamorro woman   201 Figure 23. Japanese drawing of a soldier   203 Figure 24. Bidding farewell to marines killed in action   230 ...