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Top 10 sights in Guam

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   Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica

   The cathedral basilica of Agaña, on the ground where Guam's first Catholic church was founded in 1669 by the Jesuit San Vitores, who was killed here two years later. The present building went up after American bombardment destroyed the town in 1944.

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   SMS Cormoran

   A German merchant raider scuttled by her own crew in Apra Harbour in April 1917 when the United States entered the war. She lies on the bottom touching a Japanese ship sunk in 1943, so a diver can put a hand on wrecks from both world wars at the same time.

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   Tokai Maru

   A Japanese passenger and cargo ship sunk in Apra Harbor by an American submarine in 1943. She came to rest touching the SMS Cormoran, scuttled in the same harbour in 1917, so that a diver can hold a ship from each world war at once.

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   Plaza de España

   The square at the centre of Hagåtña, where the Spanish governor's palace stood for two centuries until American bombardment in 1944. The vaulted storerooms, the arched gate and a garden gazebo survive around the open ground.

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   Fort Santa Agueda

   A Spanish fort of about 1800 on the hill above Hagåtña, built to watch the town and the harbour together. Its gun platforms survive and it is the only Spanish fortification left in the capital, the rest having gone in 1944.

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   Guam Museum

   A museum opened in 2016 in Hagåtña, telling Guam's history from the first Chamorro voyagers through Spanish rule, the American navy and the Japanese occupation of 1941 to 1944, from a Chamorro point of view rather than a naval one.

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   Orote Field

   An airfield on the Orote peninsula, extended by the Japanese occupation with Chamorro forced labour and one of the main objectives when American forces retook Guam in July 1944.

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   St. Anthony's Church, Tamuning

   A Catholic church founded in 1946, as Tamuning grew after the war around the American bases. Dedicated to Anthony of Padua and to Victor, it serves one of the largest parishes on Guam within the archdiocese of Agana.

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   Aratama Maru

   A Japanese munitions transport launched in 1938 and sunk by American aircraft in Apra Harbour in 1944. She lies in shallow water and is one of the easier wreck dives on the island, with the cargo holds still open.

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    Asan Invasion Beach

    The strand between Asan Point and Adelup where American forces came ashore in July 1944 to retake Guam. The beach, the fortifications and the water out to the reef, where a landing vehicle still lies, were listed on the National Register in 1979 and form part of the War in the Pacific park.

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   South Finegayan Latte Stone Park

   A small park in Dededo holding latte stones — the coral pillars and capstones on which Chamorro houses stood before European contact — gathered here from elsewhere on the island.

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   Fonte River Dam

   A concrete dam of 1910, 150 feet long and 24 high, thrown across the Fonte in the first organised effort by the US Navy to give Hagatna a reliable water supply. Jungle has almost swallowed it; it joined the National Register in 2014.

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   Pago Bay Japanese pillboxes

   A pair of Japanese concrete pillboxes on the shore of Pago Bay, built in 1944 against the expected American landing. Several more stand along this coast, some now half in the sea.

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   Ipao Pillbox I

   One of three Japanese concrete pillboxes left on Ypao Point, part of the defences built against the American landings of July 1944. It now sits in a beach park, half buried in sand, with families picnicking around it.

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   Matgue River Valley Battle Area

   A valley on Guam where American forces broke the Japanese defence during the fighting of July 1944, in an action that decided the recapture of the island. The ground is marked as a historic site.

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