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Perez, Juan Namaulea_Z36_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Perez, Juan Namaulea_Z36_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. Juan Manuel Perez was 71 years old at the time of this interview. On December 8th, 1941, he was chief boatman for Pan American Airways. The upper manager told the maintenance crew that Pearl Harbor had been bombed and briefly told them what to do if a bomb was dropped, to lie down flat. Shortly after that shrapnel from a bomb hit Perez. He went home to pick up his family and went to the cave behind the church in Sumay with about half the residents in the area. After the planes left that afternoon he returned to work and found that the boat he operated was not hit. That night they heard the Japanese were ready to invade the island. Perez was picked up by the Japanese and held in Sumay for three days to train some of the crew on how to operate the boat. He tried to sabotage the boat and learned a week or two later that the transmission was not working. Perez made some trips to steal dynamite and distributed it to friends and family to use it to fish. The last trip he made with two friends to steal dynamite, they got caught and threw sticks of dynamite in front of the guards, then jumped over a cliff and swam across the channel to escape. They successfully hid from the Japanese that day but were arrested the next day and taken to the barracks in Sumay, where they were interrogated and tortured. That night they were fed and watched a movie with the Japanese. The next day they were taken to Agana and watched a firing squad in the cemetery, but still would not confess. They were taken to court; Perez was sentenced to five years, one of his friends was sentenced to ten years, and the other friend was sentenced to ten years to life. The prison where they were held was damaged and they would usually escape at night and return by morning. They had small rations but got some help from civilians in the area. This continuation of Juan Perez’s interview starts with him talking about how he wants his children to learn to forgive and not to forget. Juan talks about being brought to Agat, to a camp where the local people were stationed. The following day, he went the 59 Battalion and spoke to Lieutenant Commander Jenkin and told him he knew where the Japanese Army are concentrating – where they are now. He was interviewed at Island Command in Apra and they filmed him as he spoke. He pointed to the area where he knew the Japanese were moving. Up in Yigo, by Dededo, going to the northwest field. Juan explains how he was never able to return to his town, Sumay. When the Americans invaded the island, they were told that they made an arrangement for the people of Sumay to move to Ypan, but people of Sumay rejected that. They ended up in Santa Rita. Juan describes the beauty of Sumay before the war and tells about how the people in the town worked together and helped each other.

Perez, Juan Namaulea_Z36_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

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Pellett, Father Marian_Z34_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Pellett, Father Marcian_Z34_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. Father Marcian was thirty when he came to Guam, and thirty-one in December 1941. At the time of this interview, he has been in Guam for fifty-two years. On Monday, December 8th, 1941, the Japanese bombed Guam at the same time that they were bombing Honolulu (where it was Sunday) and the Philippines. Father Marcian was at the commissioner’s house after performing a High Mass when a young man who had run seven miles from Agat to Umatec began yelling in Chamorro that the Japanese were bombing Sumay. The second day a plane came and shot over the houses. Overnight the Japanese started the invasion. On Wednesday there was bombing. Father Marcian and a corpsman [sp?] and a marine stayed in a shack that night and surrendered to Japanese soldiers going by the next morning. Father Marcian and the corpsman were taken to a house and told to stay there or they would be shot. That night they learned the Japanese had left, and they went back to Father Marcian’s house and stayed for a while. On January 3rd Father Marcian was imprisoned with other priests, and on January 10th they were taken to Japan. They were on the ship with American marines and there was little food. They arrived in southern Japan and stayed in a prison for two weeks, and then were taken to Kobe, Japan. They spent two winters with other British and American prisoners in the Canadian Academy, the first without heat. There was almost no food and they lost a lot of weight. There were about 160 people in the camp. They were moved to another camp just before the B-29s started flying over Japan in 1944. They remained in the camp until after the emperor’s surrender. General Macarthur arrived in 1945 and started sending rescue teams to the camps. They were transported to Seattle and then flew or took a train to their individual places. Father Marcian returned to Guam on March 18, 1946, and saw that it was all torn up. He knew two people who were killed in a massacre.

Pellett, Father Marcian_Z34_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

Invaders of the National Parks DVD case. Invaders of the National Parks DVD case, a DVD about invasive plant species and how the Park Service combats them.

Invaders of the National Parks DVD case


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