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Guam Legend
War in the Pacific NHP: Liberation - Guam Remembers
In February 1943, Shoichi Yokoi arrived on Guam fromManchuria, a 28-year-old sergeant assigned to the Japanese navalgarrison defending the island. In February 1972, Yokoi departed from Guam, 56 yearsold and in all likelihood the Emperor's last soldier of World WarII. After U.S. forces liberated the island in July 1944,Yokoi lived the next 28 years as a straggler and recluse. Hiding in theisland jungles, first evading American Marines and soldiers and then theChamorros serving in the Combat Patrol, Yokoi systematically and calmlyre-established his life. A native of Aichi prefecture, in Nagoya, Japan, Yokoibecame an unregistered resident of Talofofo, living for 25years in the hills and recesses of the Talofofo Riverbasin. Apparently the first three years of his life as a straggler werespent on the run, his hideout at different locations around theisland. Yokoi was not the first straggler from Guam to befound in the island's jungles. Two other men, Minagawa and Ito, wererepatriated to ... [Read More]
NOAA's National Weather Service - Radar
Loop | Alaska | Hawaii | Guam | Puerto Rico | Details/Legend ... [Read More]
War in the Pacific NHP: Liberation - Guam Remembers
While this difficult period deprived those of mygeneration most of our tender teen years, it taught us more about life,family and ourselves than I, for one, had ever learned before or sincein all the schools I have attended. The Chamorro spirit was not anabstraction; rather, it was demonstrably real during those years and Ihave drawn inspiration and sustenance from that reality my entirelife. Our World War II experience was harsh by anystandard. Severe deprivation, indignities, and punishment were commonplace. There was always that pervasive sense of personal insecurity.Most members of my generation as well as the older generation prefer notto dwell on the scars of those difficult years. But those of us who survived the trial of the waryears bear witness to a side of the occupation that I will call the"inner Guam," one that the enemy was never privileged to enter. It wasthe purest product of that cauldron of war, the brightest star in thedark sky of those traumatic times. They would ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
In any action sought to be maintained as a class action, the complaint, andany counterclaim or cross-claim, shall bear, below the title of the pleading,the legend "Class Action." ... [Read More]
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