Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on July 21, 1944, as the invasion of Guam began in the final year of World War II. Editor’s ...

Liberation Day is Guam’s most significant commemorative event, and July 21st, 2024, marks 80 years since the U.S. military delivered the island from Imperial Japanese occupation during World War II.

Today marks 81 years since the end of the second battle of Guam, a tipping point in the Pacific during World War II when U.S. forces overtook Imperial Japan and recaptured the island. And the moment ...