Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944

by John C. McManus

With moral depth he would be a great man; as it is he is a near miss which may be worse than a mile.

The 2nd Marine Division alone lost at least 238 killed, 315 missing, many of whom were dead, and 1,022 wounded, a steeper price than the 1st Infantry Division had paid nine days earlier to take its three-mile sector of Omaha Beach in Normandy.

Marines at Saipan heavier loss than big red one at Normandy