Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Battle of Saipan photographs
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Battle of Saipan photographs
- Date
- 1944 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.01 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
- Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944.
- Saipan
- Military life.
- Death
- Military weapons
- Arrangement
- The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.0616: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Battle of Saipan photographs, 1944, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- No biographical information available on photographer.
- American Letters collector Wade Hall (1934-2015) was a native of Union Springs, Alabama. Starting in 1962, he lived in Louisville, where he taught English and chaired the English and Humanities/Arts programs at Kentucky Southern College and Bellarmine University. He also taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida. He held degrees from Troy State University (B.S.), the University of Alabama (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.). He served for two years in the U.S. Army in the mid-fifties. Dr. Hall was the author of books, monographs, articles, plays, and reviews relating to Kentucky, Alabama, and Southern history and literature. His most recent books include A Visit with Harlan Hubbard; High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College; A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music; and Waters of Life from Conecuh Ridge.
- Scope and Content
- The Battle of Saipan photographs (dated 1944; 0.01 cubic feet; 48 photographs) comprise photographs that document the efforts and experiences of American troops during the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands in 1944. The photographs depict patrols, wounded soldiers, confiscated Japanese weapons, prisoners of war, casualties of war, and downtime in between fighting.
- The Battle of Saipan photographs collection is part of the Wade Hall Collection of American Letters, which includes correspondence and diaries from all over North America covering the time period of the Civil to Korean Wars. The materials were collected by Wade Hall and document everyday men and women.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
"Troops ashore and ships laying off", soldiers walking along a beach, 1944
"Waiting for word to move up", soldiers and supplies on beach, 1944
"A landing craft vehicle on way to the beach with troops", 1944
"Japanese gun mounted on flat car", 1944
"Bringing in a wounded marine", four unidentified soldiers carrying a fifth on a stretcher, 1944
"Marines with native carts", 1944
"Bringing in Jap prisoners", 1944
"Marine sniper", dead bodies in foreground, 1944
"Tank coming down Garapan harbor", 1944
"Tinian", view of Tinian across bay filled with boats and ships, 1944
"Four dead Japs", 1944
"Military cemetery on Saipan", 1944
"Administering aid to a wounded marine", 1944
"Checking to see if they are all dead", unidentified soldier standing over the bodies of Japanese soldiers, 1944
"Native shrine at Saipan", view of crucifix, 1944
United States soldiers on beach, 1944
"A banzi attack", view of numerous dead Japanese soldiers, 1944
"A Hari-Kari victim", view of dead Japanese soldier, 1944
"Track running from Garapan to Tanapeg", view down railroad tracks with dead bodies on and to the side of the tracks, 1944
"Engineers coming ashore", 1944
"Caught in a foxhole", view of dead soldiers, 1944
View of dead soldiers on a beach, 1944
United States soldiers walking through field with dead Japanese soldiers, 1944
"Cormen [sic] bringing in wounded marines", 1944
"A gun implacement", 1944
"Jap prisoners", 1944
"Two American tanks knocked-out", dead soldiers in foreground, 1944
"Burned out gun implacement" with dead Japanese soldier inside, 1944
"Garapan harbor on Saipan", 1944
"Waiting for word to move up", troops on shoreline, 1944
"A Jap tank stopped", dead soldier in front of tank, 1944
"Native shrine on Saipan", 1944
"Resting before the attack", United States troops on beach, 1944
"Jap tank knocked down", 1944
"Making the beachhead", United States troops advancing on beach, 1944
"Marines firing Japanese field-piece", 1944
"Giving blood plasma underway", troops transporting wounded soldier, 1944
"Patrolling the area", soldiers walking through battle-damaged field, 1944
"Flame thrower in action", 1944
"Tanapeg (city on Saipan)", 1944
"Bull-dozer brought ashore", 1944
"Captured Jap equipent", United States soldiers with confiscated Japanese weapons, 1944
"Hunting cover behind a Heasel", 1944
"A Banzi attack", dead Japanese soldiers on beach, 1944
United States troops walking through field with dead soldiers in it, 1944
"A burial at sea", 1944
"Marine ducking from mortar fire", 1944
"Truck that went over a land mine", 1944
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