Garapan’s Japanese Jail
Historic District
There remain only a few extant Japanese Period structures left on Saipan but none of them as storied as the...
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Garapan’s Japanese Jail
WWII Maritime Heritage Trail
Visiting archaeologists have touted the prospects for heritage tourism in the Northern Marianas. One of them, Dr. Jennifer McKinnon, had...
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Guam-born Earl Hornbostel
praised Filipinos’ kindness
during WWII
Filipino kindness was in full display during WWII as they tried to assist Americans, and other foreigners. Foreigners in the...
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Unai Bapot: Oldest settlement
in Remote Oceania
Unai Bapot, an ancient Chamorro settlement in Laulau, on the island of Saipan, may potentially be the oldest of early...
Read moreFrom Aslito to Isely Field, 1944
The takeover of the island of Saipan from Japanese control was integral to the overall strategy to defeat Japan and...
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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...
Read moreHornbostels in Manila, 1942-1945
It was like a bad dream. That was how former Guam resident Gertrude “Trudis Aleman” Constenoble Hornbostel described their experience...
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‘Big Americano who
has hair like our Virgin’
This photograph of Hans Hornbostel on the Japanese schooner Mariana Maru appeared in the Philippine Magazine in May 1936. (Philippine...
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