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Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign. Date: 21 March 2012, 21:32 (UTC) Source: This file was derived from: Battle of Guam map.jpg: Author: Battle_of_Guam_map.jpg: Us Military; derivative work: Grandiose
1537th Army Air Forces Base Unit, 30 September 1944 – 1 August 1945; 75th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 20 September 1948; 367th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 1 November 1949; Guam Air Depot (later Guam Air Materiel Area, Marianas Air Materiel Area) 56th Air Depot Group, Air Technical Service Command, 9 November 1944 – 31 August 1945
The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battle was a critical component of Operation Forager.
Landing beaches on west coast of Guam. On 21 July 1944, United States Marine and Army forces invaded the island of Guam, the southernmost of the Mariana Islands chain in the Central Pacific, with the intent to take control of the island from the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Mataguac Hill Command Post, near Yigo, Guam, has significance from 1944 during the Battle of Guam. It was the location of "the last organized resistance by the Japanese to the American liberation of Guam during World War II and therefore is considered a highlight of the invasion of Guam." [2]: 3
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces fought the Empire of Japan in the Central Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, excluding the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands East Indies, the Territory of New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago) the Solomon Islands and areas to the south and east of the ...
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
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