U.S. Marines use ox to move up supplies on Saipan. Words failing, U.S.

U.S. Marines use ox to move up supplies on Saipan. Words failing, U.S. Marines use physical persuasion to induce an ox to move up war supplies to front lines on Saipan, strategic Marianas island where organized Japanese resistance was ended on july 8, 1944. Saipan, second largest island in the Marianas group of the Central Pacific, was a key link in the Japanese inner defense system. Control of the island gives U.S. forces a base of operations less than 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from Japan.