At 0530 on 21 July 1944, battleships and cruisers opened a two-hour bombardment of Guam’s western shore, and Marines of the 3d Division and the 1st Provisional Brigade went in. O’Brien, himself a Marine combat correspondent in the campaign, follows the landings north and south, Colonel Suenaga’s night counterattack, the fighting for Fonte Ridge and Orote Peninsula and the final push north.
A clear, well-illustrated short history of one of the Pacific war’s hardest-fought liberations. Download the free EPUB.