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Guam 1941 & 1944 Loss and Reconquest Campaign 139 by Gordon L Rottman Soft Cover
Guam 1941 & 1944 Loss and Reconquest Campaign 139 by Gordon L Rottman
Soft Cover
96 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION6
Origins of the Campaign Mariana Islands
CHRONOLOGY16
THE FALL OF GUAM, DECEMBER 1941 18
THE RECAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF GUAM, 1944 22
OPPOSING PLANS22
The American Plan - Operation Forager The Japanese defense plan
OPPOSING COMMANDERS30
American Commanders Japanese Commanders
OPPOSING FORCES 35
US Forces - Joint Expeditionary Force Japanese Forces - Southern Marianas Army Group
THE GUAM ASSAULT42 W-Day Expanding the Beachhead The Drive North The Final Push
AFTERMATH 86
ORDERS OF BATTLE89
THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY92
BIBLIOGRAPHY94
INDEX 95
INTRODUCTION
This book studies two battles. The seizure of Guam in December 1941 was one of the Imperial Japanese armed forces' first victories in the Pacific War, known to the Japanese as the Great East Asian War. The July 1944 battle followed on the heels of the American assault .on Saipan and the battle of the Philippine Sea, which advanced the US forces into the heart of Japan's pre-war territories.
In 1941 Guam was a rather exposed American possession situated at the south end of the Marianas with Saipan, a significant Japanese naval and air base, only 100 miles (161km) to the northwest. Only 400 Marine and Navy personnel and just over 300 Guamanian militia and police defended the island. Their largest weapons were a few .30cal machine guns; there were no fortifications or aircraft, and only one minesweeper. No reinforcements were planned or expected. After a token resistance the defenders went into captivity and Guam endured two and half years of repressive occupation.
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