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History -- Pacific: Lost Guam Format:DVD National Geographic got a rareOn July 21, 1944, American Marines and GIs invade the island of Guam once US territory. Over the next 21 days, this Japanese stronghold in the Mariana Islands would become a bitter and bloody battlefield as US forces fight to expel nearly 19,000 tenacious Japanese troops from their heavily defended positions. The conflict becomes one of restoring American pride as battle hardened troops fight to return to the site of the old US barracks and raise the