Skip to main content
Please check our Hours of Operation page before planning your visit. Click on red bar for more information.
[X]

80-G-239318: Invasion of Guam, July 21-August 10, 1944

80-G-239318: Invasion of Guam, July 21-August 10, 1944. Private First Class Attilio Lattanz, who landed on Guam with the U.S. Marines on D-Day, has his first hot chow, several days later, as he scrapes chocolate from a ration bar into his mess cup, which he places on a small fire. It wasn’t eight course dinner, but it was better than cold rations, released August 5, 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/03/07).
Download Image:
Low (PNG, 319x319px, 99KB)
Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 368KB)
High (TIFF, 2248x2756px, 6MB)
Caption: Invasion of Guam, July 21-August 10, 1944. Private First Class Attilio Lattanz, who landed on Guam with the U.S. Marines on D-Day, has his first hot chow, several days later, as he scrapes chocolate from a ration bar into his mess cup, which he places on a small fire. It wasn’t eight course dinner, but it was better than cold rations, released August 5, 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/03/07).
Related Content
Topic
  • Theater of Operations--Pacific
Document Type
  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
  • Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
File Formats
  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
Location of Archival Materials
Author Name
Place of Event
Recipient Name