FILE -- This Aug. 14, 2017 file photo shows Tumon Bay near Hagåtña, Guam. The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam, which happened on the same December day as the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, set off ...
I wrote in my column last week about how the meaning of historical commemoration depends largely on where we begin and end the story. History is filled with lessons, but how we bring its elements into ...
HAGATÑA, Guam (AP) — More than 3,000 people on Guam are expecting to get long-awaited compensation from the U.S. government for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II.
On the first day the Japanese bombarded Guam on Dec. 8, 1941, Josefa A. Acfalle's mother got hit by shrapnel but couldn't get any treatment or medicine. "I lost my mother. She died three days later. I ...
The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that ...
HAGATÑA For Antonina Palomo Cross, Japan s occupation of Guam started with terror at church. The then-7-year-old was attending Catholic services with her family when ...