{"id":6106,"date":"2016-08-10T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2016-08-10T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:16:02","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-7-13-august-1944-americans-recapture-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6106","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 7–13 August 1944: Americans recapture Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A stream flows down from the highlands of Guam in the Marianas [Author: David Burdick, Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 10 August 1944, American forces completed their recapture of the island of Guam in the Marianas. Organized Japanese resistance came to an end, although isolated groups of Japanese soldiers continued to hold out and survived for many months.<\/p>\n

Guam had been a US territory prior to its capture by the Japanese in 1941. Although little more than 200 square miles in area,\u00a0the island\u00a0would provide an air base from which B-29 bombers could\u00a0strike the Japanese homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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