Tag: World War II
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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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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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It was his son’s curiosity that whetted his appetite to gather more details about what had happened to them on Saipan, those weeks they faced their fears as they claimed the island from Japanese military stranglehold. Mark Leary Matthews was in his 30s when he asked his father, WWII veteran Carl Matthews, how come they…
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In an interview with this reporter on the Fourth of July in 2012, she said, many of her contemporaries had passed away and she was grateful to be around still. For Jean, she did not know of any other WWII female veteran still living. With four brothers in the military, she wanted to experience what…
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A musician and former Los Angeles Times proofreader returned to Saipan on Feb. 4, 2014, and was honored for his service in the Battle of Saipan. Lloyd Coulson Glick served on the USS North Carolina that bombarded Saipan along with the Fifth Fleet during WWII. He arrived aboard the cruise ship Crystal Serenity that pulled…
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Huddled together in a cramped cave during the Battle of Saipan, they wept to slake their thirst. In an interview back in 2011, Tan Escolastica Tudela Cabrera said they were out of food and water inside the cave in 1944. For 19 days their family lived inside the cave as Saipan was in the midst…
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FREEDOM comes at a cost. So said U.S. Marine Corps Ret. Lt. General Lawrence Snowden in an interview with this reporter at the VFW Saipan Post in March 2012 following his trip to Iwo Jima. He said the young generation should look at Iwo Jima, Korean War, war in Afghanistan and recognize that freedom costs…