The front page of the Deseret News on July 21, 1944, as the invasion of Guam began in the final year of World War II. World ...

This week we celebrated the 82nd Liberation Day on Guam. Between 1,800 and 1,900 U.S. service members died in the Battle of ...

No CHamorus were liberated on Liberation Day. However, many Imperial Japanese soldiers were liberated by death. According to their bushido code — “Death before Dishonor” — the Japanese soldiers were ...

For Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick McDonald of the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade based out of Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, a routine training mission in Guam is more than just training, it is a ...

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a convoy of ships nearing the island sees strange ...

When Raymond Faulkner stepped foot on Guam in July 1944, mortar shells were going off and there was a lot of commotion. "With all of those U.S. Marines out there fighting, I had to get past those to ...

Before the sun rose on the morning of Friday, July 21, 1944, massive shelling of the island began. Hundreds of airplanes dropped 124 tons of bombs along the 14-mile stretch of Guam from Hagåtña to ...

At 11:31 a.m. on Aug. 10, 1944, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger announced that all organized enemy resistance had ended. The Battle of Guam was officially over. The flagship USS Indianapolis arrived ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 21, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. World War II had dragged on for five years when U.S.