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Liberation Day on the U.S. territory of Guam is an annual commemoration of the invasion by U.S. military forces on July 21, ... 2009. [17] As the years have gone on ...
As a result of the end of the Japanese occupation, Guam celebrates with a yearly Liberation Day on 21 July. The island also holds a procession on 8 December; this also commemorates the day of the Japanese attack. On this day, people gather in Hagatna and watch parades and have carnivals.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) enters Apra Harbor on its way to mooring at Naval Base Guam for a scheduled port visit, June 2020. Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula. In 2009, it was combined with Andersen Air Force Base to form Joint Region Marianas, which is a Navy-controlled joint base.
Map of Guam. This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam. There are currently 134 listed sites spread across 17 of the 19 villages of Guam. The villages of Agana Heights and Mongmong-Toto-Maite do not have any listings.
During the Japanese Occupation of Guam in World War II, Fena became the site of one of the island’s most tragic events: the Fena Massacre. 30 young men and women were abused and killed in nearby caves, an event that is commemorated during Guam’s Liberation Day. Following the war, the U.S. Navy seized the area, and since has been restricted ...
On July 15, 2009, Maria Luisa Santos, Miss Earth Guam 2009 attended the 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam and the Battle for the Northern Marianas hosted by the Guam Society of America. The reception was held in the Caucus Room of the historic Cannon House Office building on Capitol Hill, which attended by over 1,000 guests.
The Agana Race Riot (December 24–26, 1944) took place in Agana, Guam, as the result of internal disputes between white and black United States Marines.The riot was one of the most serious incidents between African-American and white military personnel in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.
The history of Guam starts with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorro Peoples.The Chamorus then developed a "pre-contact" society, that was colonized by the Spanish in the 17th century.