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title: 'Illustrated Current News, No. 4814, article: Services for Saipan Dead (New Haven, Conn., 7 July 1944)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/illustrated-current-news-services-for-saipan-dead-1944/
description: 'News-photo sheet: Marines in camouflage helmets stand and carry flag-draped biers on a troop transport while a Navy chaplain reads the burial service.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** News photograph of flag-draped bodies of dead Marines on a ship deck during a burial service at sea. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Illustrated Current News, No. 4814, article: Services for Saipan Dead, 1944 US newspaper page: News-photo sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/illustrated-current-news-services-for-saipan-dead-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/illustrated-current-news-services-for-saipan-dead-1944.jpg)

# Illustrated Current News, No. 4814, article: Services for Saipan Dead (New Haven, Conn., 7 July 1944)

News-photo sheet: Marines in camouflage helmets stand and carry flag-draped biers on a troop transport while a Navy chaplain reads the burial service. The headline reads 'SERVICES FOR SAIPAN DEAD'. The technique is faint: the flags and solemn ritual carry the national symbol onto the dead, while the text gives a casualty comparison.

## Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Entered as second-class matter April 15, 1931, at the post office
at New Haven, Connecticut, under act of March 3, 1879
ILLUSTRATED CURRENT NEWS
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by
Illustrated Current News, Inc., New Haven, Conn.
Subscription Annually, $20.80
July 7, 1944—No. 4814
SERVICES FOR SAIPAN DEAD
A Navy chaplain reads burial services for Marines who died on Saipan before they were sent to rest at sea from this
troop transport.  Buddies of the dead Leathernecks act as pall-bearers.  Troops on Saipan have suffered three times the
casualties of Tarawa to date.
News Note: Americans Win Capital of Saipan Isle.
```

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