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Article: Proclamation 6705 - 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam. (Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- July 4, 1994
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June 30, 1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Fifty years ago, on July 21, 1944, after two and a half years of occupation, 55,000 United States Marines and soldiers stormed the small Pacific Island of Guam in an effort to bring about the liberation of a people oppressed by tyranny.
The conquest of Guam by Imperial Japanese forces had begun shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor when Saipan-based Japanese bombers launched the first in a series of raids on the island. The small defending force consisted of a handful of military and civilian construction workers, as well as the local Guam Insular Guard and the ...