The Guam landings had been tentatively set for 18 June but a large Japanese carrier attack and stubborn resistance by the unexpectedly large Japanese garrison on
Saipan led to the invasion of Guam being postponed for a month.
The ships and embarked troops for the Guam portion of Operation Forager were under the direct operational command of Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly.
Ground Troops
The Marine and Army landing forces for both the Central and Southern Marianas phases of Operation Forager were under the overall command of Maj. Gen. Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, USMC.
Operations Officer (Bn-3): Maj. Marshall J. Hooper
2nd 155mm Howitzer Battalion
Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. Marvin H. Floom
Executive Officer: Maj. Gene N. Schraeder
Operations Officer (Bn-3): Maj. Earl J. Fowse
Northern landing area (West of Agana)
3rd Marine Division command on Guam
Maj. Gen. Allen H. Turnage
Alfred H. Noble as a major general
Marines wading ashore at Guam.Interior of Japanese concrete pillbox on Guam.Marines with war dogs.Marine M-4 Sherman tanks burn after being struck by Japanese anti-tank gun fire near the village of Yigo.Marines on Guam using flamethrower.Japanese 75mm anti-aircraft gun.The village of Hagåtña, Guam after more than a month of bombardment.jpg.
Clark, George B. (2006). The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co.
ISBN978-0-7864-2769-7.
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1953). New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 – August 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VIII. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
LCCN53-7298.
Rottman, Gordon L. (2004). Guam 1941 & 1944: Loss and reconquest. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
ISBN978-1-84176-811-3.
The Guam landings had been tentatively set for 18 June but a large Japanese carrier attack and stubborn resistance by the unexpectedly large Japanese garrison on
Saipan led to the invasion of Guam being postponed for a month.
The ships and embarked troops for the Guam portion of Operation Forager were under the direct operational command of Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly.
Ground Troops
The Marine and Army landing forces for both the Central and Southern Marianas phases of Operation Forager were under the overall command of Maj. Gen. Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, USMC.
Operations Officer (Bn-3): Maj. Marshall J. Hooper
2nd 155mm Howitzer Battalion
Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. Marvin H. Floom
Executive Officer: Maj. Gene N. Schraeder
Operations Officer (Bn-3): Maj. Earl J. Fowse
Northern landing area (West of Agana)
3rd Marine Division command on Guam
Maj. Gen. Allen H. Turnage
Alfred H. Noble as a major general
Marines wading ashore at Guam.Interior of Japanese concrete pillbox on Guam.Marines with war dogs.Marine M-4 Sherman tanks burn after being struck by Japanese anti-tank gun fire near the village of Yigo.Marines on Guam using flamethrower.Japanese 75mm anti-aircraft gun.The village of Hagåtña, Guam after more than a month of bombardment.jpg.
Clark, George B. (2006). The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co.
ISBN978-0-7864-2769-7.
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1953). New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 – August 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VIII. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
LCCN53-7298.
Rottman, Gordon L. (2004). Guam 1941 & 1944: Loss and reconquest. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
ISBN978-1-84176-811-3.