Tag: WWII
-
She was shunned by many because of leprosy; but such social stigma would later on prove to be an asset for her to do the greatest good for the greatest number. Josefina Guerrero played a crucial role in the rescue of thousands of Americans and other expatriates in Santo Tomas internment camp. Afflicted with leprosy,…
-
IT was May 11th 1942 when Capt. Ethel Sally Blaine Millett, nine other Army nurses and three other women were officially captured by the Japanese at the USAFFE base hospital in Cagayan. “We stayed there until July… We were taken from Cagayan and we went to Davao by a dirty little boat,” she said. On…
-
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…
-
STAFF Sergeant Raymond Hagley, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, left his family a legacy of rare color Kodachrome slides. Little did his son Greg know that he would be getting these rare WWII color photographs—about a dozen of them. His father Ray arrived on Saipan as part of the advanced deployment of the 73rd Bombardment Wing in the…
-
A former Imperial Army soldier has vowed to keep coming back to Saipan to pray for those who perished in the brutal Battle of Saipan. Private First Class Teruki Okazaki, a former Imperial Japanese Army heavy artillery unit soldier, came to Saipan in June 2014 to participate in the commemoration of the 70th year of…