American soldiers drive the wounded away from the front lines during the fight to take Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, June 1944. In the first jeep, one soldier drives while a second holds up IV bags attached to two injured men strapped to the vehicle's hood. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Casualties lying dead during WWII action on Orote Pennisula, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Little Japanese girl in village on Saipan carrying a big bottle of water in her arms and a baby on her back, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





An American Marine lifts a nearly dead infant from a cave where native islanders had been hiding during the battle for Saipan between US and occupying Japanese forces while a second Marine watches from below, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, July 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





View of an American marine as he lies in a foxhole and whistles at a husky, one of the scouting dogs used during the landing on Guam, August 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)





Truck loaded with Marines of 2nd Division driving past remains of main aircraft hangar & destroyed planes during heavy American attacks on Japanese seaplane base at Flores Point, near Tanapag harbor, during the US invasion of Saipan on June 01, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





US Marines crouching behind hillside rock cover, blowing up cave connected to Japanese blockhouse in WWII action on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





US Marines tending to wounded comrades while the fighting rages on during the battle to take Saipan from the Japanese, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





A bomb explodes in the water off the port side of an American aircraft carrier during the battle for Saipan, June 1944. The planes on the deck are Grumman TBF Avengers. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Graves are swept with a broom at an American military cemetery for those killed during the fight for Iwo Jima, 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





A soldier from the US 7th Army Division comforts a wounded comrade during the fight for Okinawa, Japan, May 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Dirt smeared American Marine Terry Moore soldier stopping for a cigarette break during the fight for Okinawa, 1945. (Photo by Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Muddy Amer. infantryman Terry Moore (C) w. his buddies in ponchos huddled in foxhole during intense sniper fire as they wait to advance on enemy position, 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





US Marines march past sign reading “ROAD EXPOSED TO ENEMY ARTILLERY, KEEP TO RIGHT” on their way towards the front lines during the fight to take Okinawa, 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Filipino nurse tending to the wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital located in Cens Cathedral during the campaign to retake the Philippines on December 12, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Wounded American Marine being loaded onto an “alligator” tracked amphibious vehicle for evacuation during fighting against Japanese for Asan Point on July 20, 1944. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)





Soldiers of the Army 7th Infantry Division, crouching in a ditch nr. Rocky Crags on the first day of battle deemed one of the toughest this veteran unit had ever encountered during struggle to win the island, April 21, 1945. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)