Peter Stackpole—Time &amp; Life Pictures/Getty Images American troops in the Pacific bathe during a lull in the fighting on the island of Saipan, 1944.

Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images American troops in the Pacific bathe during a lull in the fighting on the island of Saipan, 1944.

Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images American troops in the