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In a W. Eugene Smith photo that, somehow, captures both tenderness and horror, a U.S. Marine cradles a near-dead infant that the Marine found wedged, face down, literally under a rock while clearing out Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. Hundreds of Japanese civilians in the islands committed suicide rather than surrender to the Americans.

see more — In Combat: LIFE’s Great War Photographs