Tag: Guam
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The Japanese governor of the Northern Marianas had been widowed so he took a special trip to Japan to find himself a new wife. He found a young woman he was smitten with in the American protestant church’s orphanage. Soon, a wedding was officiated and he planned to head back to Saipan with his new…
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“Will I die?,” asked a Chamorro youth as he lies on the operating table, having sustained gunshot wounds to his abdomen. Captain Wilma Leona Class Jackson, kindly responded that he wouldn’t, and the young man replied with resignation to his fate, “I don’t care if I do. If I die, I will not have to…
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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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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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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…