American troops head for landings on Saipan.

American troops head for landings on Saipan. American soldiers listen to last minute instructions aboard a combat transport en route to Saipan Island where American assault forces landed on June 14, 1944. One day after U.S. troops established a beachhead on Saipan, major Japanese supply center in the Marianas group of the Central Pacific, U.S. B-29 Superfortresses bombed industrial targets at Yawata, on Japan's homeland. This is a radiophoto sent from Hawaii to the U.S.