BY CYRIL J. O’BRIEN

[Illustration: _Marines of Battery I, 14th Defense Battalion, man their

twin-barrelled, Mark IV, Oerlikon-designed 20mm guns on top of Chonito

Ridge, overlooking Adelup Point. In the initial stages of the Guam

operation, these antiaircraft guns fired in support of the 3d Marines._

Department of Defense Photo (USMC) 93063]

[Illustration: _A threatening 75mm Japanese gun pokes its barrel out of

the Gaan Point pillbox where a companion piece and a 37mm gun wreaked

havoc on the assault waves of the 22d Marines on W-Day, destroying

approximately 24 troop-carrying amphibian tractors, before the enemy

position was taken out._ Department of Defense Photo (USN) 247618]

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