Lieutenant General Takeshi Takashina was killed on July 28th and was replaced by Hideyoshi Obata. Although they did penetrate the American defences on several occasions they were forced back with heavy losses to both men and equipment. The first several days were made up of Japanese counter-attacks and were mostly at night using infiltration tactics. Thompson of Upper Montclair, N.J.) plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. The most difficult landing was tasked to the 77th Infantry Division due to the reefs where landing craft had to stop and let troops wade ashore, but beachheads were established by nightfall and were about 2000 meters deep. Heavy resistance was encountered almost immediately with 20 LVT’s being sunk by Japanese artillery, but tanks succeeded in arriving ashore at both landing zones by 0900. The 3rd Marine Division landed to the North of Orote at around 0830 and the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade landed just to the South near Agat.
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