Private First Class Skaggs, a squad leader with a weapon section in the 3rd Marine Division, was critically wounded when a Japanese grenade exploded in his foxhole during the night of 21-July 22, 1944 on the Asan-Adelup beachhead on Guam.
Private First Class Skaggs, who led a weapon section as a squad leader in the 3rd Marine Division, was critically wounded when a Japanese grenade exploded near his foxhole during the night of July 21 to 22, 1944 at the Asan-Adelup beachhead on Guam.