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War in the Pacific

  • Outbreak of War
  • History of the Outbreak
  • PreWar Guam: 1941
  • Insular Force Guard
  • Japan’s Pacific Gamble
  • The Chamorro
  • Sailors and Ships

The Defense of Guam

  • 1941: Fateful and Tragic Year
  • Spirit of Rembrance
  • Surrender of Guam to the Japanese
  • Guam’s Insular Forces
  •  Pre-War Guam
  •  An Ode to Unsung Heroes      

Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam

  • Introduction
  • Coming Back to Guam
  • Operation Forager
  •  Ashore in the North
  • Southern Beaches
  • Colonel Suenaga Attacks
  • Fonte Ridge
  • Orote
  • Securing the Force Beachhead Line
  •  The Attack North
  •  Beginning of the End
  • Selected Biographies
  • 3rd Marine Divison Insignia
  • The Taking of Chonito Ridge
  • The Colt .45- Caliber M1911a1 Pistol
  • War Dogs on Guam         

Liberation- Guam Remembers
A Golden Salute for the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam

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Photo Galleries

Memorial Wall in honor of Chamorros and Americans

War in the Pacific National Historical Park 

 
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