Showing posts with label United States Marine Corps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States Marine Corps. Show all posts

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, June 21, 1944. Ox Cart on Saipan.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, June 21, 1944. Operation Bagration com...:

The US 2nd Marine Division captured Mount Tipo Pole and then started fighting for Mount Tapotchau on Saipan.  The 4th Marine Division progressed east on the Kagman Peninsula.

Marines in ox cart, Saipan, June 21, 1944.

The irony.

 Same day, same paper. One ad celebrating agriculture, and one celebrating its destruction.