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
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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Illustrated Current News, Inc. (New Haven, Conn.)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Illustrated Current News, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1711 (NAID 515382).
Text on the object
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.
