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Photo #: USMC 94251 (color)

Navy and Marine Corps leaders

At a conference on Guam, 11 August 1944.
They are (from left to right):
Major General Roy S. Geiger, USMC, who commanded ground forces during the recapture of Guam the month before;
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN, Commander, Fifth Fleet;
Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, USMC, who commanded ground forces during the Marianas operation;
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas; and
Lieutenant General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Photographed by TSgt. James N. Carroll, USMC.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

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21 November 2001