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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 21, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. World War II had dragged on for five years when U.S.

Explore how Guam and its residents dealt with the Japanese occupation of their island in WWII. Explore how the American territory of Guam and its residents dealt with the horrific Japanese occupation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A team of researchers is on a mission to find sunken ships, aircraft, artillery, and other lost relics related to the World War II invasion of Guam in 1944. The team of National Parks Service ...

BARRIGADA, Guam – On July 21, 1944, American military forces stormed the beaches of Guam and reclaimed the island after a brutal three-year Japanese occupation. The day, which would eventually return ...

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 ...

At 11:31 a.m. on Aug. 10, 1944, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger announced that all organized enemy resistance had ended. The Battle of Guam was officially over. The flagship USS Indianapolis arrived ...

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 ...

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 ...