| Description: | While a Pacific Fleet Cruiser 40mm gun crew (right foreground) stand alert, light surface units edge in close to Guam to shell Japanese dump, troop areas and possible batteries. Smoke (center) marks a direct hit on a storage dump. In picture a LCI, gunboat, a destroyed transport (second from right) and a destroyed carrier dive bomber can be seen. (From left to right) over the first planes, diving, glides, and pulls out after dropping their bombs to join their formation. Asan Beachhead. July 21, 1944. (National Archive 80-G-239300) |
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