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Accessible PDF file of two-page Unigrid brochure for Gulf Islands National Seashore

Gulf Islands National Seashore Brochure

Sailors

Sailors

A man looks into an exhibit case in a museum.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Exhibits

A man looks into an exhibit case in a museum and holds a phone to his ear.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Exhibits

Four men look at a large orientation map.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Orientation

A volunteer gives a talk to a group of people while an American flag waves in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Wounding Tour

A volunteer gives a talk to a group of people while an American flag waves in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Wounding Tour

A volunteer gives a talk to a group of people in an open field, while pointing to the distance.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Flank Attack

A tent with smoke rising from a small campfire, clothes out front, in a clearing in the woods.

Living History Camp

Four men stand in front of a group of people while a man in a Union Civil War uniform looks on.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

A line of men stand in a field facing a man in a Civil War cap man with a man in a Civil War, Union uniform looking on.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

A man in a Civil War Union uniform marches next to a formation of men marhcing.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

A man in a Civil War Union uniform looks on at a group of men forming two lines, 6 men each as they walk into a field.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

Two lines of men, seven men deep, stand facing away while a man in a Civil War Union uniform instructs them in firing weapons.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

Two lines of men, seven men deep, stand facing away while a man in a Civil War Union uniform instructs them.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

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Siguenza, Peter_Z27_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Siguenza, Peter_Z27_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. Peter C. Siguenza was born in Guam and grew up in Agana until he left for high school. He remembers it being a peaceful, slow lifestyle. He and his friends were altar boys and choir boys and would often play on the Plaza de Espana early before mass, and the Marine Century [sp?] from the Governor’s Palace would tell them to keep down the noise or leave. At that time, under the naval government, they were forbidden from whistling and from taking and doing many things in Agana. On balance he thinks the administration of the navy was beneficial because it stressed sanitation and provided schools, medical and dental care, and the police department. When he returned to the island as a marine, he recalls seeing the destruction of the island, including his own home. Many people were given housing in villages and moved away from Agana.

Siguenza was with the 3rd Marine Division during World War II. When he was a sophomore at San Diego State College in April 1942 he enlisted in the Marine Corps in San Diego, California. The division trained in New Zealand for Pacific jungle operations. Their first operation was the invasion of Bougainville on November 1, 1943. The next operation was Guam. They were in a convoy on transport on the USS Dupage when at Asan, outside of Guam, orders came through for Siguenza to return to the United States because he had been selected to go to officer’s candidate school. He wanted to continue to Guam but his commanding general would not let him. He was transferred to a destroyer and made his way back to Virginia. When he was commissioned he was flown out to Guam to rejoin the 3rd Marine Division after the island was already secured and his buddies had returned home.

Siguenza joined another outfit that was training in Guam for the invasion of Japan. During that time there were some problems on the island, and his battalion was sent out to secure the area and flush out some Japanese stragglers. The stragglers were strongly motivated not to surrender, but it seemed the Americans succeeded in flushing them out because there was no further harassment fire.

Siguenza had relatives or friends in the villages; one time he had lunch with a man in his home, and another time he surprised a woman by understanding her statement in Chamorro, “no wonder the marines can’t catch Japanese because they are looking for women.”

On September 2, 1945, the message came in that the Japanese had surrendered, and there was much joy among the troops. Siguenza had to stay in Guam because he was regular Marine Corps and he was assigned to island command, which had responsibility for the predecessor of the government of Guam. He returned to San Diego in mid-1946.

Siguenza attended events on Guam commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese invasion on December 8, 1941. He met ten Japanese veterans and reflected on how, during the war, it was his mission to kill them. He told them that he has forgiven. He thinks there is much more to be gained in the world by peace than by war.

Siguenza, Peter_Z27_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

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Reyes, Jose_Z40_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Reyes, Jose_Z40_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. The interviewer describes how difficult life was in Guam during World War II. The Japanese attacked on December 8th, 1941. During three and a half years of occupation, the Chamorros were subjected to forced labor and eventually placed in concentration camps. Near the end of the occupation, Japanese behavior grew more violent. The Japanese command made a decision to kill all of the residents of the southern village of Merizo, and some of the worst mass executions of Chamorros took place there, in the caves of Tinta and Faha. Jose Soriano Reyes, whose wife had been executed, led an uprising against the Japanese.

On July 10th, 1944, Jose’s wife, Laurice [ph] Cruz Reyes, told him that she was to be executed. A fight with an airplane in the area stopped the execution. Jose was about 20 miles away in Agana, and he returned to Merizo on the 15th. The Japanese were gathering the villagers and he sent his wife ahead with the children. On his way to join them, he heard grenades being thrown into the cave at Tinta where 30 villagers were held. Fourteen survived and hid under dead bodies to avoid being bayoneted by the Japanese. After nightfall they escaped. The next day, the Japanese gathered 30 more villagers and asked for help delivering supplies to Japanese to the north. The villagers were taken to Faha cave and again executed with hand grenades. This time there were no survivors. Other villagers, including Jose, were forced to move supplies. They went to the concentration camp at Atate. Jose learned that the Japanese had the young women massage them and deduced that it was time for the bonsai [sp?]. The Japanese had the villagers dig a large hole, which Reyes thought was for the people of Merizo, and he decided it was time to act.

Reyes went with John Angulta [ph] and Pat Tidyron [ph] to fight the Japanese, and after they attacked the first guards, four other boys who had previously agreed to help Jose joined them. They killed four guards and took their weapons. About 50 or 60 people joined them, armed with sticks. They killed more Japanese and went to a supply depot. Two boys from Inarajan approached Jose with a note for the Japanese people in the Merizo cemetery. Jose asked the guards who were protecting the people from Merizo to keep the boys there. Then Jose and his people went to Agat and continued going after the Japanese. Jose sent his brother-in-law, Tony Leong Guerrero [ph], with five men on an outrigger canoe to go to an American ship and tell its commander that the Japanese were moving north. After reaching the ship they returned as scouts and guides leading the Marines through Agat and Merizo.

According to the interviewer, Merizo was the only village on Guam that was liberated by its own people. The Guam Legislature adopted resolutions in 1972 and 1989 expressing recognition and commendation of Jose Reyes and the band of Guamanians he led.

Reyes, Jose_Z40_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls surrounded by red flowers

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Statue of waves and seagulls

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls surrounded by red flowers

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls with Washington Monument across the Potomac River

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Stone steps leading to a rolling field with trees

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls surrounded by red flowers

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls surrounded by red flowers

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Plaque on a statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls surrounded by red flowers

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

Statue of waves and seagulls

Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial

A crowd in the plaza in front of Washington, DC's Union Station watches ceremony consisting of a uniformed band, flag bearers in military dress, and presenters on a stage.

Ceremony at Columbus Plaza

US Marine Corps War Memorial, George Washington Memorial Parkway, 2015.. This statue is dedicated to the marines who died in all wars as well as to their comrades of other services who fell fighting beside them.

US Marine Corps War Memorial, George Washington Memorial Parkway, 2015.

Drawing of Gate 1 in the mid 19th century.

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Gate 1

Cachalot (built 1933; submarine) underway, near the shore. The location of the submarine is unknown, but it is most likely in or around the San Francisco Bay.

Cachalot (built 1933; submarine) underway, near the shore

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group in the a clearing surrounded by woods.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Lee-Jackson Bivouac

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group in a large field.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Flank Attack

Four men standing in front of a large group with a volunteer behind them in a large field.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Flank Attack

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group in a large field.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Flank Attack

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group in a large field.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Flank Attack

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group with a brown, single story building in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Wounding Tour

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group with a brown, single story building in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Wounding Tour

A volunteer giving a talk in front of a large group on a path with a brown, single story building in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Jackson Wounding Tour

A park ranger talking to a group of people and demonstrating the use of a Civil War cannon, in a clearing with woods in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Hazel Grove

A park ranger standing facing a large group of people in a clearing with woods in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Hazel Grove

A park ranger talking to a group of people in a clearing with woods in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Hazel Grove

A park ranger talking to a group of people and demonstrating the use of a Civil War cannon, in a clearing with woods in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Hazel Grove

A group of people watch as men demonstrate the use of a Civil War cannon in a clearing with woods in the background.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Hazel Grove

A group of people watch as a man dressed in a Union Civil War uniform speaks to them.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Fairview Living History

A volunteer gives a talk to a group of men in a clearing in the woods.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Lee-Jackson Bivouac

A volunteer gives a talk to a group of men in a clearing in the woods. The speaker is pointing to a large map held up by another man.

Staff Ride at Chancellorsville, Lee-Jackson Bivouac

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