U.S. bombardment of Guam killed over a thousand Chamorros

Evidence

The battle to retake Guam began in July 1944 with one of the war’s longest and largest naval bombardments. The bombardment, which planners designed to weaken Japanese defenses before an amphibious assault, showed little concern for the local population. Ironically, many Chamorros survived the bombing only because they were in concentration camps and not in their villages. By the time the U.S. military had regained control of Guam, some 1,170 Chamorros were dead. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 240

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the U.S. ‘liberation’ bombing killed civilians — connects to the reader’s recurring theme of base-hosting populations bearing collateral costs of campaigns nominally fought for them.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 240