Salute

On June 15, 1944, the first wave of United States Marines hit the beach on Saipan, in the Marianas, opening America’s assault on the inner defense perimeter of the Japanese positions in the Pacific.

landed approx 1600 [runs the combat diary of Warren Boege, then a lieutenant, a pilot, doing temporary ground duty] in LTV . . . LTV on port turned over on reef . . . four men seen to emerge—21 including driver were aboard