"Alligators" Fuel Up Off Saipan. Off the embattled beaches of Saipan in the Marianas, "alligators" and Coast Guard-manned landing barges pull up to a sea-going filling station to take on fuel. In the distance is Mount Tapachou on which Marines and Army troops gained strong ridge positions in the three-weeks battle that resulted in the ultimate fall of Garapan, the Marianas capital city.

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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg