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July 29, 1944

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2,000 JAPANESE DIE IN ATTACK ON GUAM; General American Gains Made After Battle -- Half of Tinian Is Overrun by Marines

By George Horne

Nimitz repts US forces on Guam gain in all sectors; repulse Jap attack on northern beachhead and kill 2,000 in predawn battle; advance on Orote Peninsula; correction, have not captured large Orote airfield; fierce fighting continues in Agena suburbs; US forces take Mts Tenjo, Alutam and Chachao in 2-mi advance inland from Apra Harbor; gunboats and carrier planes support US troops; counted Jap dead on Saipan, Guam and Tinian nears 28,000, US reptd dead, 3,651; Tokyo radio claims on US casualties noted; US marines on Tinian advance 3 1/2 mi; capture Gurguan Pt airstrip; hold about half of Tinian

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Jim Bridwell

1944Jim Bridwell, American rock climber and mountaineer (died 2018)[†]

Jim Bridwell was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska. He was noted for pushing the standards of both aid climbing and big wall climbing, and later alpine climbing. He wrote numerous articles on climbing and developed several important pieces of aid climbing equipment. Bridwell was an apprentice to Royal Robbins and Warren Harding, and later the unofficial leader of the Stonemasters.