With the recent celebration of D-Day and the Normandy invasion, another D-Day took place July 21, 1944. On that day members of the 3rd Marine Division and the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade landed on the heavily fortified beaches of the island of Guam, Marianas Islands.

The island had fallen to the Japanese three days after Pearl Harbor, Dec. 10, 1942; 1,440 American servicemen were killed and 5,650 wounded in the recapture of this Pacific stronghold.

“Lest we forget.” Jack Lally Garland