World War II Photograph from Battle of Guam

World War II Photograph: 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.

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.

National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland (26-G-2672)