U.S. Marine gets transfusion on way to hospital ship. So not a moment will be lost, a wounded U.S.

U.S. Marine gets transfusion on way to hospital ship. So not a moment will be lost, a wounded U.S. Marine receives a blood plasma transfusion while stretcher bearers carry him aboard an amphibious tractor on the Tinian beach for evacuation to a hospital ship. All organized resistance ended on the former Japanese base, one of the Marianas islands only 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from Japan, 10 days after the U.S. landings on July 23, 1944. With 5,000 enemy dead already counted, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific fleet, said Japanese troops still hiding on the island had "little means of resistance and no means of escape".