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Official caption: Agana, Guam. Front view of wrecked government house, with the U.S. Flag flying from the shattered flag pole, August 2, 1944. Photographed by Corporal H.H. Clements/USMCR.
Keep ’em flying.
Official caption: Agana, Guam. Front view of wrecked government house, with the U.S. Flag flying from the shattered flag pole, August 2, 1944. Photographed by Corporal H.H. Clements/USMCR.
Keep ’em flying.
Offical Caption: “5 August 1944. Home Again – Col. Merlin F. Schneider (kneeling, left), Commanding Officer of the Marine unit that recaptured the Marine Barracks on Orote Peninsula, Guam, holds the plaque that was removed by the Japanese when they took possession of the barracks and the island nearly three years earlier.”
The three Marines, who located the plaque and presented it to the Colonel, stand behind it. They are (left to right): Privates First Class John C. Brown; Carmen J. Catania; and Corporal Joseph J. Mannino.
Others also got into the act of posing with the recovered sign.
Col. Merlin Schneider – 22 Marine Rgt., Lt. Col. Alan Shapley – 4th Marine Rgt., Brig. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd- 1st Prov Marines, Lt. Gen. Holland McTyeire “Howlin’ Mad” Smith,
Today, the Guam Barracks plaque is in the collection of the U.S. Marines Museum
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