FONTE PLATEAU UNIT
Battlefield — Hagatna, Guam
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fonte-plateau-unit-guam/

Battlefield plateau retaining a Japanese communications bunker.

A battlefield in Hagatna, Guam, Fonte Plateau Unit is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Battlefield plateau retaining a Japanese communications bunker. The archive files it under dark history and military ruins. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

The plateau decided whether two beachheads lived. When American forces landed on Guam on July 21, 1944, they took the shores at Asan and Agat and stopped — pinned on narrow strips below hills the Imperial Japanese Army had spent months fortifying. Linking the beachheads meant taking the ridge between Adelup Point and Måkpo Point, and the strongpoint on that ridge was Fonte Plateau, looking straight down on Asan Beach.
The 3rd Marine Division went up on the morning of July 25. That night Lieutenant General Takeshi Takashina committed more than five thousand men — most of what he had left — to a massive counterattack. Japanese troops poured down the slopes shouting "Wake up American and die!" The fighting went to hand-to-hand, rifles, rocks, and entrenching tools; some attackers strapped explosives to their own bodies. When it ended, the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines had taken over fifty percent casualties and counted between six hundred and nine hundred Japanese dead. The plateau was taken on July 29, closing the first phase of the Battle of Guam.

THE BUNKER
The park unit's surviving feature is a U-shaped concrete bunker with arched entrances at the rear of the plateau. It is often called a command post; the record says otherwise — it was the Imperial Japanese Army's communications center for the island, and because its equipment sat in caves and bunkers it survived the pre-invasion bombardment almost intact. That is what let Takashina keep talking to his troops as they lost ground; after the failed counterattack on the morning of July 26, he withdrew to this bunker before ordering the general retreat. It was overrun on July 28.
Five days after Guam was declared secure, Admiral Chester Nimitz made Fonte Plateau the forward headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and directed the rest of the Pacific war from the ground the Marines had just taken. The file keeps the site as documented military history — no haunting claims, just a bunker, a mislabeled one, and the fight it took to reach it.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· NPS identifies this as a July 1944 battlefield. The surviving bunker served communications, despite often being labeled a command post. The site's documented military history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Fonte Plateau Unit'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Fonte Plateau Unit — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/fonte-plateau-unit.htm

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