Japan's Last General On Guam Didn't Mention The War In His Final Words
On August 11th, 1944, Japanese General Obata sent his final message to the Emperor from a cave on the northern tip of Guam.
It wasn't what anyone expected.
This is the story of the Battle of Guam — twenty-one days, eighteen thousand Japanese dead, and the American captain nobody remembers who held the hill that made it all possible.
In July 1944, Guam was still Japanese-occupied American territory. The Chamorro people had been living under occupation since December 1941. And the man assigned to take it back — Captain Louis Wilson, 24 years old, from Brandon, Mississippi — would be wounded four times in a single day before it was over.
What happened on Fonte Hill on the night of July 25th changed the entire course of the Pacific War. The B-29s that bombed Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki took off from airfields built on that ground.
Almost nobody knows his name.
If your father or grandfather served in the Pacific — this story was meant for you.
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