Marines Pinned Down, Chonito Ridge. War in the Pacific Collection USMC-87283.

More than two and half years after Pearl Harbor, the US returns to Guam to liberate the island from Japan. Confronted by intense fire from Japanese defenders, the 3rd Marine Division lands at Asan, and to the south, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, followed by the Army’s 77th Infantry Division, goes ashore on the beaches in Hågat.