The Massacre Of Guam From The Japanese Perspective: 18,377 Japanese Soldiers Dead
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The Massacre of Guam saw 18,377 Japanese soldiers dead in twenty-one days of fighting — the complete destruction of Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Obata's 31st Army on American territory, July 21 to August 10, 1944. The Imperial Japanese Army would never again put a garrison of that size on American territory.
This documentary tells the Battle of Guam from the Japanese perspective: the 29th Infantry Division under General Takeshi Takashina, the counterattack off Fonte Hill on the night of July 25–26 that cost the garrison 3,500 men in one night, the naval garrison on Orote Peninsula, the march north against the 3rd Marine Division and the US Army's 77th Infantry Division, Obata's final message from Mount Mataguac, and Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi, who held out in the jungle until 1972. It also records what the garrison died beside: the Chamorro people, the Manenggon march, and thirty-one months of occupation.
Built from after-action reports, prisoner-of-war interrogation records, and USMC and National Archives loss tables.
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No other nation in the world had proximity fuses except Britain, to whom the US had given them. Proximity fuses made US artillery the most deadly.
The Massacre Of Guam From The Japanese Perspective: 18,377 Japanese Soldiers Dead
Warfront Archieves
12,484 views
The Massacre of Guam saw 18,377 Japanese soldiers dead in twenty-one days of fighting — the complete destruction of Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Obata's 31st Army on American territory, July 21 to August 10, 1944. The Imperial Japanese Army would never again put a garrison of that size on American territory.
This documentary tells the Battle of Guam from the Japanese perspective: the 29th Infantry Division under General Takeshi Takashina, the counterattack off Fonte Hill on the night of July 25–26 that cost the garrison 3,500 men in one night, the naval garrison on Orote Peninsula, the march north against the 3rd Marine Division and the US Army's 77th Infantry Division, Obata's final message from Mount Mataguac, and Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi, who held out in the jungle until 1972. It also records what the garrison died beside: the Chamorro people, the Manenggon march, and thirty-one months of occupation.
Built from after-action reports, prisoner-of-war interrogation records, and USMC and National Archives loss tables.
Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days.
#WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #USNavy #WWIIHistory #BattleOfGuam #ImperialJapaneseArmy #MilitaryHistory #WarInThePacific #USAInWW2