Today marks 81 years since the end of the second battle of Guam, a tipping point in the Pacific during World War II when U.S. forces overtook Imperial Japan and recaptured the island. And the moment ...
Nearly 80 years ago, American forces launched a successful invasion of Guam. The island had fallen into Imperial Japanese control in 1941, just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and as the ...
The Marines, however, modified LVTs with ramps that allowed their men to penetrate the atoll on the northwest. Moreover, the ...