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Events on Thursday 10 August 1944 1
1944Battle of GuamUS forces retake GuamUS Marines and Army troops landed on Guam and recaptured it from Japan after three weeks of fighting. The island had been a US territory until Japan seized it in December 1941. Guam became a major base for the bombing campaign against Japan.