Black Smoke Shrouds Wreckage of Charon-Kanoa. Coast Guardsmen, participating in the invasion of Saipan, look over the wreckage on the pier at Charon-Kanoa, Japanese base on the Marianas island which fell before the withering fire of American invaders. In background, still burning, is a sugar refinery which was blasted by shells from the Fleet.

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