National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

A Republic P-47 [318Th Fighter Group] Takes Off From The Flight Deck Of The Aircraft Carrier Uss Manila Bay, Which Ferried This Plane And Others From Oahu To Saipan, Marianas Islands. June 23, 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number A63748AC)

A starboard view of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) underway during NATO Exercise NORTHERN WEDDING 86

'Rum And Coke', A Feline Veteran Of Saipan, And One Of The Mascots Of The 364Th Air Service Group, Proves A Playful Paper Weight As 1St Sgt. John Pavesick Of Mcdonald, Ohio, Types His Morning Report At An Improvised Desk In The Shade Of A Tree On Ie Shima (U.S. Air Force Number 64986AC)

Photograph of Injured Japanese Child Receiving Medical Attention

[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__DI11030.JPG]

18 Coast Guardsmen Honored For Heroism at Saipan

7Th Bomber Command Personnel Land At Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Marianas Islands. 4 August 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number 63637AC)

An LCM-8 mechanized landing craft approaches the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) as the utility landing craft LCU-1643 backs out of the SAIPAN's well deck during Operation Sharp Edge. Marines embarked aboard the SAIPAN are being sent 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

World War II – Saipan

3Rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron Area On Saipan, Marianas Islands. 30 September 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number 121766AC)

Coast Guard Invasion Barge Hits the Saipan Beach

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the"Scan Eagle"launches from a pneumatic wedge catapult launcher on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) during operations in the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 23, 2006. The"Scan Eagle"is designed to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, battle damage assessment and communications relay in support of the Global War On Terrorism. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Patrick W. Mullen III) (Released)