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, a squad leader in a weapon section of the 3rd Marine Division, was seriously injured when a Japanese grenade detonated in his foxhole on July 21-22, 1944 at the Asan-Adelup beachhead on Guam.