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15 DECEMBER 1944

Guam Installations (1944)


short 20 cm. gun emplaced
This short 20 cm. gun emplaced at Asan Point covered one of the landing beaches. The position has been carefully camouflaged by Japs to look like part of rocky point, and reninforced concrete protecting gun is hardly distingushable from surroundings.
Dummy gun with barrel of canvas-covered wood
Dummy gun with barrel of canvas-covered wood painted grey was one of four placed by Japs in bomb craters near Agana airfield.
This dummy gun was installed on old US. emplacement
This dummy gun was installed on old US. emplacement overlooking the sea. Japs take great pains to confuse estimates of strength.