“In late afternoon [of 6 August 1944], while he was reconnoitering the site of a new CP near Ipapao [on Guam], the 77th Division chief of staff, Colonel Douglas C. McNair, was killed by a sniper. Colonel McNair’s father, Lieutenant General Leslie J. McNair, had been killed 12 days before by a misdirected American bomb, while he was observing an infantry battalion attack in France.” – Henry I. Shaw, Jr., Bernard C. Nalty, and Edwin T. Turnbladh, Central Pacific Drive, History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Vol. III, “The Return to Guam”