Word: pityingly
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Japs had made plenty of mistakes in planning the defense of Guam. The Marine 3rd Division, advancing southwest from the northern beachhead, found elaborate mine fields and gun positions off the former U.S. Naval Station at Piti. Casualties would have been heavy if the marines had landed there. Instead, they smartly flanked these and many other defenses. But the enemy was still no setup. He was fighting the same kind of savage rear-guard action he had fought on Saipan, where 21,036 Jap corpses had been buried, where 3,414 Americans were dead or missing...
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