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With the American forces entrenched on Saipan, the plan had already been set for the taking of Guam. As the American forces dealt with the remaining Japanese troops on Saipan, they had set their sights on bombarding Guam. By July, the bombings continued on a more regular basis. According to Admiral Nimitz’ diary, on July…
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It is an enduring friendship that even a world war could not tear this bond asunder. Anecdotes abound how Filipinos and Americans helped each other out most especially during the war. Long before war reached the Philippines, President Manuel Quezon had banked on this friendship with the Americans as the islands had begun fortifying their…
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Months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy at Sangley Point in the Philippines had been trying to contain polio from becoming an epidemic. In an interview with the University of North Texas’ oral history program, Navy nurse Dorothy Still Danner, who was stationed at Cañacao Navy Hospital, shared how they tried to…
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She was the bond that held together her team of Navy nurses as they endured three years of internment in Santo Tomas and Los Baños camps in the Philippines during the war. Hazel-eyed, well-mannered U.S. Navy nurse Laura Cobb had had put in 20 years of service when war broke out in the Philippines where…
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“Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure.” These words were attributed to Lt. Col. Madeline “Madge” Ullom who…
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Teddy Tyson, wife of Singer Sewing Company executive James, reluctantly knitted a pair of socks. She finished it anyway and still managed to complete a pair that her friend, Ora Robinson, was also working on. When done, she gave the knitted socks to Herbie Zwick who had asked her the favor to do so two…
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He saved their lives as he turned a blind eye to their “transgressions” in the camp when otherwise they would have been tortured and killed. WWII internees at Camp Holmes in Baguio City, Philippines had lived a comparatively “peaceful” life in a war camp because of Commandant Rokuro Tomibe who was the Japanese civilian administrator…
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He felt sorry for the Japanese people but he did what was necessary. World War II veteran Raymond Russell Kelly who flew over 35 bombing missions to mainland Japan in 1945 shared his experience with Marianas Variety and Kyodo News in an interview at the American Memorial Park on June 13, 2014. They were in…
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He never overlooked an opportunity to give help and assistance to individual internees and by his untiring efforts he obtained huge sums of money for use in buying food, clothing, medicines, and hospital supplies badly needed. So stated a citation issued to Ruth Grinnell when her husband Carroll was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom…
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IT took him 65 years to set foot again on the island of Saipan. Sylmar, California-resident John Fusano — whose family once had a canning of olive and olive oil business in the San Fernando Valley, the Cristo Fusano and Sons olive canning factory and oil mill — was overjoyed at having his wish come…