Scores of landing craft people the water off Guam as the U. S. military press the campaign for Guam on 20 July 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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503.Photograph. 'File Number: 59456 August 2, 1944 Landing boats swarm off Guam Scores of tiny landing craft people the water off Guam as the U. S. Navy, Marines and Army press the campaign to restore the Stars and Stripes on Guam, first U. S. territory taken by the Japs in the war. At the right a tender stands by to play its role in the attack, which began on July 20, 1944, after 17 days of bombardment.' 20 July 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Guam
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13.467
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144.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Coastlines--Guam
Warships--American--Guam
Landing craft--American--Guam
Islands--Guam