PRISONS & PRISONERS: Higa Kioke (left) and Toma Sumuko, young Japanese girls roll bandages for use in hospital which has been set up by Army, Navy, Marines and U.S. Public Health Service for care of civilians interned in the Korean Compound on Saipan, Marianas Islands. 10 July 1944.

TRANSPORTATION: Convoy of ships en route to Saipan, Marianas Islands. 19 June 1944.

BOMBING: Wreckage of a Japanese barracks after American attack on Saipan. 1944.

BOMBING: Scene of devastation to the city of Garapan, Saipan, Marianas Islands. 9 July 1944.

RECREATION: American sense of humor gets a play during the battle on Saipan as these 7th AAF aviation engineers audition a Japanese recording on an abandoned Japanese hand-crank talking machine.1944.

RECREATION: First Sgt. Thompson helps out behind the bar of the 883rd Bomb Squadron, 500th Bomb Group, Saipan, Marianas Islands.

RECREATION: Air Force personnel shown in bar of the newly completed Officer’s Club on Saipan, Marianas Islands. 2 November 1944.

RECREATION: Two young Kanaka dancers join other members of the tribe who are performing some of their native dances for the men of the 7th Air Force based on Saipan, Marianas Islands. 23 February 1945.

RELIGION: Catholic Mass being said by Chaplain Capt. Bernard A. Spoekoler, 2237 Kailin Ave., Louisville, Kentucky. Site is a former Japanese plane bunker at Isley Field. 1944.

RELIGION: Capt. Bernard A. Spoelker, Army chaplain from Louisville, Ky., Fr. Jose Maria Tardio, SJ and Br. Oroquieta, SJ, pose with a group of native Chamorros in the compound at Chalan Kanoa, Saipan, Marianas Islands. 10 July 1944. Fr. Tardio and Br. Oroquieta are Spanish and have been working with the natives for 13 years. When the Japanese occupied the island, they fled to the hills and stayed there until they were rescued by our forces.