Battle of Guam (1944)

Second Battle of Guam
	Part of the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign of the Pacific Front (World War II)
	; U.S. Army officers planting the American flag
Date	21 July – 10 August 1944; (2 weeks and 6 days)
Location	Guam, Mariana Islands
Result	American victory
Belligerents
United States	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Roy Geiger; Richmond K. Turner; Holland Smith; Allen H. Turnage; Andrew D. Bruce;	Takeshi Takashina †; Hideyoshi Obata †;
Units involved
III Amphibious Corps; 3rd Marine Division; 77th Infantry Division; 1st Provisional Marine Brigade;	29th Division
Strength
Assault: 56,537; Garrison: 9,250; Total: 65,787; 274 ships;	Army: 11,500; Navy: 5,000; Air: 2,000; Total: 18,500–22,554,; 40 tanks, 700 obstacles ;
Casualties and losses
Marines: (15 Aug.); 1,568 battle deaths; 5,365 wounded; Army: (10 Aug.); 177–179 killed; 29 missing; 662–704 wounded; Navy/Ships Personnel:; Organic to Marine units (15 Aug.); 51 battle deaths; 206 wounded; Ships:; 13+ battle deaths; 27+ wounded;	14,067 dead (buried 15 Aug.); 86 POWs (12 Aug.); Eventually; 18,337 dead, ; 1,250 captured;
	600+ civilians killed

The Battle of Guam (21 July–10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battle was a critical component of Operation Forager. The recapture of Guam and the broader Mariana and Palau Islands campaign resulted in the destruction of much of Japan's naval air power and allowed the United States to establish large airbases from which it could bomb the Japanese home islands with its new strategic bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

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