Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Witness (video) #507 Saipan (Marines carrying body)

“The heaviest load these Marines will carry – the body of a dead buddy. Marines also die in the fierce struggle against the Japanese. Note expressions of the Marines carrying the dead Leatherneck.”
Metadata
Date: June 25, 1944
Location: Saipan
Photographer: unknown
Source: U.S. Marine Corps/U.S. National Archives
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