Military Photo of the Day: Mugging at a Lion

By Shannon Henderson Published on June 30, 2018

Marine Mugging at Lion, Saipan, 27 June 1944
“A Marine pauses in a Japanese shrine garden on Saipan to make faces at a “mad lion” statue which seems to have escaped the rain of shells and bullets in that area.”
From the Photograph Collection (COLL/3948), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

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