Tinian, Seabees, and the bombs
that ended WWII
In 2008, I had the privilege to accompany WWII veteran Hap Halloran and Jerry Facey to Tinian for a day...
In 2008, I had the privilege to accompany WWII veteran Hap Halloran and Jerry Facey to Tinian for a day...
It was like a bad dream. That was how former Guam resident Gertrude “Trudis Aleman” Constenoble Hornbostel described their experience...
This photograph of Hans Hornbostel on the Japanese schooner Mariana Maru appeared in the Philippine Magazine in May 1936. (Philippine...
The Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport sits on two historic airfields: Isely Field (formerly named Conroy Field) and Aslito Airfield....
With Germany's defeat in WWI, Japan took over all of its colonial possessions in the Western Pacific. On October 14,...
IN contrast to the oppressive rule of other colonial masters in the region, the Germans took on a different approach...
[Anthropologist and U.S. Army and Marine veteran Hans Hornbostel had been working for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu...
Cut off from economic and political developments on Guam and Saipan at the time of the islands partition into American...
Scholar and war veteran Hans Hornbostel had not stopped thinking about locating the ancient fort the locals called trinchera taotaomona...
A veteran of the Spanish-American War and WWI, and a scholar, Hans Hornbostel, in the early 1920s, was tasked to...
© 2019 House of Taga
Alexie Zotomayor
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
© 2019 House of Taga
Alexie Zotomayor
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.