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Asan Beach

Guam / Maina /

Former site of a leper colony (1892-1900), the Presidio of Asan (1902-1903), a Marine camp (1922-1931), Camp Asan (1945-1947), a civil service camp (1948-1967), a Navy hospital annex (1968-1975), and finally a Vietnamese refugee camp (part of Operation New Life, which relocated South Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon) in 1975. All of the buildings once located here were destroyed by Supertyphoon Pamela in 1976 and subsequently removed. In 1978, the property was acquired by the National Park Service and turned into the War in the Pacific National Historical Park.

The Asan Beach Unit consists of 109 land acres and 445 water acres and is the site of the northern landing beaches. It was here that the 3rd Marine Division came ashore on July 21, 1944 for the initial assault and was met by troops of the Japanese 320th Independent Infantry Battalion. War-related structures and sites, all associated with Japanese defenses, are located at Asan Point and Adelup Point.



www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/wapa/asan_b...
www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/asan-beach-unit.htm
www.tendertale.com/ttonl/newlife.html
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Coordinates:   13°28'28"N   144°42'38"E
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