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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.”

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Date: June 25, 1944
Location: Saipan
Photographer: unknown
Source: U.S. Marine Corps/U.S. National Archives

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Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting. © 2015
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  • ISBN: 1-57680-905-6

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