For Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick McDonald of the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade based out of Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, a routine training mission in Guam is more than just training, it is a ...

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When Raymond Faulkner stepped foot on Guam in July 1944, mortar shells were going off and there was a lot of commotion. "With all of those U.S. Marines out there fighting, I had to get past those to ...

Guam has been an American territory since the United States took it from Spain in 1898, with only one interruption -- the brutal three-year occupation by the Japanese Empire during World War II.

Before the sun rose on the morning of Friday, July 21, 1944, massive shelling of the island began. Hundreds of airplanes dropped 124 tons of bombs along the 14-mile stretch of Guam from Hagåtña to ...

On Aug. 9, 1944, the flag ship USS Indianapolis left port in Saipan heading to Apra Harbor. The island of Tinian had been secured the previous week, and the Battle of Guam was wrapping up. The ...

On Aug. 6, 1944, military doctors with the help of CHamoru nurses were caring for hundreds of sick and injured civilians in makeshift facilities on the island. “Medical personnel for handling the ...

On Aug. 8, 1944, a CHamoru military organization previously known as the Insular Patrol Force was re-established as the Local Security Patrol Force. The establishment of the group, which would later ...

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Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a convoy of ships nearing the island sees strange ...