Photographs from the Battle of Guam
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Guam, American base in the Marianas, fell to the Japanese a few days after Pearl Harbor. Here, Yankee invaders raise the Stars and Stripes over the Guam beaches again as U.S. Coast Guard andNavy-manned invasion barges from a powerful task force established the beachhead that led to re-conquest of the island.
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Close after a terrific naval bombardment that smashed Japanese shore positions, Marines and Coast Guardsmen hit the beaches of Guam. Desolation marks this shell-torn stretch of coast, where supplies and men pour in for the battle inland.
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Medical treatment is given to Coast Guard and Marine casualties on the deck of a landing barge as it moves out from the embattled beaches of Guam with its cargo of wounded American invaders. Damaged by heavy Japanese mortar fire, the bow ramp is heaved into place by an improvised block and tackle rigged by Coast Guard crewman. Its mechanical hoisting device was knocked out by the fire.
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Back from the fighting lines beyond Guam’s beaches, four Coast Guardsmen bring out a wounded buddy on a litter to the be treated aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport off shore. He fell from mortar fire. back ofthe litter bearers is an amphibious tractor, known as an alligator. The litter bearers are, from left to right: Joseph Friel, Seaman First Class, of Philadelphia, Penn.; Daniel McGinn, Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class, of Philadelphia; and Joseph Krynicky, Seaman First Class, of Passaic, New Jersey.
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