U.S. forces executed landings on Guam and Tinian in July 1944 .

After heavy fighting , Saipan was secured Preventing_or_letting in July and Guam and Tinian in August 1944 .

Meanwhile , the Americans built Building new bases from scratch Bodily_harm at places like the Admiralty Islands , Majuro , and Ulithi Atoll , and took over Control the major port at Guam .

Historically , the competition Competition has been open Openness to , and remains open to , the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees in the U.S. ( including territories such as Guam , American Samoa , Puerto Rico , the Navajo Nation , and the U.S. Virgin Islands , along with overseas military bases in Germany and South Korea ) .

However , it is more widely accepted Receiving that the Pacific War itself began Process_start on 7/8 December 1941 , when the Japanese invaded Attack Thailand and attacked Attack the British colonies of Malaya , Singapore , and Hong Kong as well as the United States military and naval bases in Hawaii , Wake Island , Guam , and the Philippines .

Radar picket escort ships , based in Guam or Pearl Harbor , provided Supply long-term presence at sea offshore to guard Patrolling against trawler infiltration .

Another fatality occurred Coming_to_be in Guam under similar circumstances , though the island sustained less damage Damaging .

Following the storm , a state of emergency was declared Expressing_publicly in Guam and areas of the Northern Mariana Islands were declared Expressing_publicly federal disaster areas .

Forming Coming_to_be on September 11 , 2009 , about 1100 km ( 700 mi ) to the east of Guam , the initial disturbance rapidly organized Arranging into a tropical depression .

As a developing typhoon , the outer rainbands of Saomai affected Influence the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam , causing moderate damage .

On January 12 , the typhoon caused Causation widespread damage to Guam and Rota as it brushed the two islands , destroying Destroying at least 200 homes .

In preparation for the storm , Governor of Guam Eddie Calvo declared Expressing_publicly the island in Condition of Readiness 3 and later upgraded Cause_to_make_progress it to Condition of Readiness 1 .

On July 11 , NASA satellites revealed Reveal_secret Rammasun passing Motion_directional directly over Guam .

Rammasun only made landfall Self_motion on Guam as a tropical depression , with winds much weaker than earlier anticipated .

After passing Motion_directional near Guam , Irma continued to deepen Cause_change_of_strength , and was estimated to have attained Getting typhoon intensity early on November 21 .

Typhoon Dolphin was a powerful tropical cyclone that produced Creating the first typhoon-force winds on Guam since Typhoon Pongsona in 2002 .

Dolphin intensified Cause_change_of_strength into a typhoon before passing between Guam and Rota on May 15 , producing Creating typhoon-force winds on both islands .

The storm also dropped Motion_directional heavy rainfall , flooding Catastrophe Guam Memorial Hospital .

Later , a stationary rainband from the typhoon dropped Motion_directional heavy precipitation on Guam during its dry season .