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A small brown rodent with large teeth, small ears, and small black eyes sticks its head out of a small round burrow.

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae). January 22, 2023.

Dozens of daisy like flowers with white petals surrounding a plump and rounded golden center. All the petals are reaching downward, below the centers. The flowers are blooming above the plant which is littered with deeply divided green leaves.

Mayweed (Anthemis cotula) - June 23, 2020

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Kasperbauer, Carmen_Z26_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Kasperbauer, Carmen_Z26_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. Carmen Artaro [sp?] Kasperbauer was dressed as an angel for the feast of the Immaculate Conception on Monday, December 8, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Guam. She was six years old and attending mass with her older sister Maria and her father. They heard a lot of airplanes and later an explosion. The priest let them go when they did not hear more planes approaching. Everybody was screaming and running, and the girls lost track of their father but were found by their aunt, who took them home. Their father and mother and siblings were sitting in their truck filled with household goods. Carmen thought her father had abandoned them and did not learn until after the war that he had asked her aunt to look after her so he could run home to her mother and siblings and get ready. As they drove the truck, people were hanging onto it, and Carmen’s father had to fight them off.

They stayed in their aunt’s house on the family ranch for the rest of the war. It had no electricity and no running water and an outhouse. Occasionally they went to Agana and stayed at their own home. Carmen recalls that people had to get out of their trucks and bow deeply to the Japanese guards, and if they did not bow properly they would be punished. On one trip, Carmen’s mother was carrying a letter from George Tweed to Mrs. Johnston and was afraid she would be searched. At the beginning of the war there was enough food, but eventually things got harder. The Japanese would pass by their house on the way to the lighthouse they were building, and they would usually try to come during mealtime and would chase the family off the table and eat the food. When Carmen’s family saw the Japanese coming, her mother would keep the baby and smaller kids near her because she thought that would protect her from being raped or molested, and the older children would go hide in the jungle.

Carmen remembers always being hungry on the ranch and watching her parents prepare food for her father to take to the jungle for George Tweed. She did not know whom it was for and resented it. She says it seemed like there were a lot of secretive things going on. Later her father started making fewer trips into the jungle and she began to help him carry the food, and they would have to be careful not to be seen by any Japanese. He would leave her in the jungle to gather something and told her he was taking the food to the Japanese in the nearby lighthouse, but she did not notice the contradiction. One time he left her for a long time in the jungle and she thought he was getting rid of her because there wasn’t enough food to feed everybody at home.

Carmen recalls another incident where she was playing and imitating a bird, saying “tweet, tweet, tweet,” and her mother told her never to say that and hit and kicked her. She thought her mother hated her and only later learned her mother was concerned that somebody would overhear and associate them with George Tweed.

Carmen says when her father first saw Tweed he decided to help him because he was gaunt and reminded him of Jesus Christ before he was crucified. Her father remembered learning the biblical saying “I am my brother’s keeper” and took Tweed in. A lot of people wanted to help save Tweed because of their belief in American democracy. Others were angry that Tweed had not turned himself in. While Tweed was hiding he did not know what the Chamorro people were thinking. The Japanese were interested in getting Tweed because he was the only radioman on the island, and they wanted his help to spy on U.S. military activity in the Pacific.

When the Americans were bombarding the island, Carmen’s dad took the last of the provisional food to Tweed’s cave and planned to tell him he couldn’t bring more food. Tweed had left a note that he had signaled an American ship and left the island. Carmen’s father returned to the ranch and the family planned to go to the Japanese concentration camp. As they were preparing to go, two Japanese came by, first to get another male relative and then to get Carmen’s father, under the guise of repayment for food from the ranch. Carmen ran and got a rifle or shotgun her father was hiding in a hollow tree. He refused to go with the Japanese and, after they left, took the family to Tweed’s cave. They remained there until August 8th, Carmen’s birthday, when Americans arrived and gave them a little food.

Kasperbauer, Carmen_Z26_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

Close up of a pocket gopher resting on a log on the ground.

Pocket gopher

Trails of diggings lying on top of the ground.

Pocket gopher diggings

A trail of pocket gopher diggings running across the top of the ground.

Pocket gopher diggings

A trail of diggings runs across the ground

Pociket gopher diggings

Close up of a pocket gopher which has long claws and small eyes.

Pocket gopher

Close up of a pocket gopher which has long claws and small eyes.

Pocket gopher

A small pile of dirt has a pocket gopher in it excavating.

Pocket gopher diggings

Trails of gopher diggings lie on the ground.

Pocket gopher diggings

Gopher is emerging from its burrow.

Pocket gopher

Looking at the backside of the gopher in some low vegetation

Pocket gopher

A pile of dirt has a gopher in it excavating.

Pocket gopher diggings

Trails of dirt lie on top of the ground

Pocket gopher diggings

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Reyes, Rafael_Z35_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_public.mp3

Reyes, Rafael_Z35_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf. Ralph Reges was fifteen, the youngest child and an errand boy at his home in 1941. His errand on December 8th was to take his niece to church for the lady of the Immaculate Conception day. About halfway through the mass they heard planes and then an explosion, and the priest ended the mass and told them to go home because Sumay was just bombed by the Japanese. Everybody went berserk, running and screaming. Ralph got his niece to his sister in Agana and ran back to his home in Agana Heights where his family was gathered. They loaded household items, provisions, and clothing onto the bull carts and prepared to go to the boonies. Ralph’s father sent him to help his aunt, a widower, who he stayed with throughout the war. When he and his aunt walked down San Ramon Hill to secure their surrender badges, it was like a different world with soldiers all over the place.

Ralph was known as a hardworking boy and was selected for forced work details. He replaced his brother-in-law on the manganese mining crew for a couple of days. Toward the end of the war Ralph’s civilian group dug tunnels and foxholes. They hustled and had little rest. The only way to escape being hit, slapped, poked or struck with a bayonet was through good behavior. The experience reminded him of slavery in the South. Ralph was also chosen to lay mines on the shores as tank barriers. While on this detail it began to rain very hard and the American bombardment began, and he and four friends took cover under a raised hut. A shell hit the hut and one friend died immediately, another later that day. Ralph told his detail supervisor that he was not well and would be burying his friends, and he was told to be at home because soon people would be sent to the concentration camps. Ralph’s area was sent to the camp called Mata, in Talafofo, where they built shelters and were able to hunt and forage for food. He was climbing a coconut tree when he saw Americans. They did not realize he spoke English and at first tried to communicate with him like Tarzan, saying “You Guam, me American.” Marines worked to secure the area and led people out, and then Ralph learned that his brother had been brutally beheaded and his father was in a concentration camp elsewhere cooking for Japanese officers. From then on they knew they were in safe positions and started picking up where they left off.

After the war Ralph served as a superintendent at the park in Asan where the emplacements [sp?] he built were located. At the tenth anniversary in August 1988 he made a statement about being the only superintendent in the National Park Service helping to protect and preserve what he unwillingly helped construct. The structures are deteriorating fast because they were meant for temporary protection from invading troops. When he was superintendent he was asked how he felt about the Japanese, and while he hated the one who beheaded his brother, he knows the Japanese were working under strict orders.

Reyes, Rafael_Z35_WAPA-246_WAPA 4170_OralHist_Audio_transcript.pdf

Bear Thermometer

Bear Thermometer

2011 Sand Sculpture Contest: Adult/Family Group 1st Place Winner: Entry #45: Octomom, by the Errecart Family

2011 Adult/Family Group 1st Place Winner

2008 Sand Sculpture Contest: Adult/Family Group Entry #17: Castle of the Moment, by the Sheff Mitchell Family

2008 Adult/Family Group Entry #17

2002 Sand Sculpture Contest: Children's 2nd Place: Entry #04: Mom and Baby Dolphin, by Dana, Eric, and Cameron

2002 Children's 2nd Place Winner

Path leading to the ranger station and nature trails

Lake Crescent - 2

Bluff Wildland Fire Use fire runs up Crater Butte

Crater Butte Run

USS ALBACORE.

USS ALBACORE

Redcliffe.

Redcliffe

USS ALBACORE.

USS ALBACORE

USS ALBACORE.

USS ALBACORE

USS ALBACORE.

USS ALBACORE

Redcliffe.

Redcliffe

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for Jon Alino. Early twentieth century employee card containing identifying information on the employee, and salary history, from Union Iron Works Co., which had been acquired by Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for Jon Alino

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for G. Alexander. Early twentieth century employee card containing identifying information on the employee, and salary history, from Union Iron Works Co., which had been acquired by Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for G. Alexander

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for W.L. Akard. Early twentieth century employee card containing identifying information on the employee, and salary history, from Union Iron Works Co., which had been acquired by Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for W.L. Akard

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for Jas. Akard. Early twentieth century employee card containing identifying information on the employee, and salary history, from Union Iron Works Co., which had been acquired by Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Union Iron Works Co. employee card for Jas. Akard

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Cinnamon fern

Tidepool

Tidepool

Tidepool

Tidepool

A Tremendous Battle

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A Tremendous Battle

A Tremendous Battle

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A Tremendous Battle