The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II.

When they were attacking Guam from July 21 to August 10, 1944, U.S. forces were not only acquiring a fine harbor and a number of airfields to use during World War II (and beyond), but they were also liberating U.S. territory; ceded by Spain after the Spanish American War, Guam, the southernmost of the Mariana Islands, had been captured by the ...

While Guam is only 212 square miles, the island is rich in history. Only hours after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Japanese began aerial bombings on Guam. After two days of strafing, the Japanese came ashore and hours later the naval governor surrendered the American territory.

On 21 July 1944, United States Marine and Army forces invaded the island of Guam, the southernmost of the Mariana Islands chain in the Central Pacific, with the intent to take control of the island from the Imperial Japanese Army. Operation Forager II, as it was called by American planners, was a phase of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

2024年10月25日 · The Battle of Guam began on the morning of July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack launched five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division, led by Major General Allen Turnage, landed on Assan (Asan) Beach.

2019年9月15日 · The island of Guam in the western Pacific was one of several U.S. territories occupied by the Japanese during World War II, others notably being the Philippines and a portion of Alaska.

As World War II began in the Pacific, Navy Capt. George McMillin was the governor, in charge of 153 Marines and about 270 navy personnel. This was augmented by the Guam Insular Guard Force, a local police force or militia made up of Guamanians and numbering about 250.

2024年10月25日 · After Captain George McMillin surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army, Guam spent two and a half years under Imperial Japanese control. Caught in a war they didn't start, the CHamoru endured a harsh military occupation from …

2019年11月4日 · The Battle of Guam was fought July 21 to August 10, 1944, during World War II (1939-1945). Originally an American possession, the island of Guam had been lost to the Japanese during the opening days of the conflict in 1941.

2024年7月18日 · A key part of Operation Forager, the amphibious assault—actually the recapture and liberation—of the U.S. territory of Guam, captured by the Japanese on 7 December 1941, was originally planned...