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The M/V Gunner’s Knot dropped off 55 heads of Santa Gertrudis cattle at Saipan’s Tanapag Harbor. The cattle purchases were made through the Callan and Cowart Ranches in Texas and the Cherokee Ranch in Colorado

2 July 1944; 2nd Mar Div; Ships burning in Tanapag Harbor near Garapan. These ships had been partly destroyed by pre-invasion action but were set afire later when it was discovered that the Japanese were using them as machine gun and mortar nests to…

5 July 1944; 2nd Mar Div; Trapped Japanese, north of the town of Garapan, attempted to gain refuge by getting to their few ships in the Tanapag Harbor. Marines quickly brought artillery into play, the ships and Japanese were sent to the bottom. One…