National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

Time Out to Remember

A Formation Of Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Roars Toward Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Where They Will Strike Japanese Installations On The Tiny Islands Halfway Between Saipan And The Japanese Homeland. 21 October 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number 70513AC)

Marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) check their equipment aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) while waiting to board a helicopter during Operation Sharp Edge. The Marines will be flown to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, to augment security and evacuate U.S. and foreign nationals from the fighting between government and rebel forces

A crewman aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during exercise Ocean Venture '81

The amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LPH-2), lies tied up at the naval station

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Saipan Island, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07__DI10969.JPG]

Maintenance And Flight Crew Of The Boeing B-29 'Punchin' Judy' Piloted By Major Donald W. Thompson, 881St Bomb Squadron, 500Th Bomb Group, Saipan. They Are, Left To Right, Front Row: T/Sgt. Don Bartok, 1St Lt. James Rood, S/Sgt. William Cloud, S/Sgt. Wate (U.S. Air Force Number 59543AC)

Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) officers receive a pre-operation briefing in the squadron ready room aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2). The SAIPAN is on station off the coast of Liberia for Operation Sharp Edge

Shoving Off For the Beaches of Saipan

From the Beaches of Saipan

Two F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154) perform a section roll off Saipan in the Mariana Islands

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Saipan Island, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07__DI10736.JPG]