Wounded U.S. Marines receive blood plasma on Saipan Island. A U.S.

Wounded U.S. Marines receive blood plasma on Saipan Island. A U.S. Navy Corpsman administers blood plasma to a wounded American Marine (left) while other Marines (right), injured during the initial fighting on Saipan Island. await their turn. American casualties during the conquest of the strategic Marianas island totaled 15,053 - 2,359 killed, 11,481 wounded and 1,213 missing - by July 10, 1944. By July 8, when organized enemy resistance ended on the Central Pacific island, U.S. troops had buried 11,948 enemy soldiers killed during furious and unsuccessful resistance to the American forces which landed on Saipan on June 14.