Battle of Guam (1944)
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The Battle of Guam was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, an American territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the
U.S. Army officers planting the American flag
Senior Navy and Marine Corps commanders. Left to right: Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly, Major General Henry L. Larsen and Major General Roy S. Geiger
Japanese infantry and tank dispositions on Guam, 21 July 1944
One gun of a 4-gun Japanese dual purpose 120 mm battery on hill east of the Orote Peninsula airfield. Revetments 21 feet (6.4 m) in diameter and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep. A two-inch (51 mm) pipe served as a speaking tube communicating from the command post to the guns.
Guam
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Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Guam's capital is Hagåtña, and the most populous village is Dededo. It is
Battle of Guam (1944)
…The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, an American territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II…
Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, c. 1590 Boxer Codex
The main street of Hagåtña c. 1899–1900.
U.S. Marines walk through the ruins of Hagåtña, July 1944.
A photograph of Guam from space captured by NASA's now decommissioned Earth observation satellite, Earth Observing-1 (EO-1), December 2011.