A young Chamorro boy clutches his crucifix as he rides to a civilian interment camp during the battle of Saipan, July 1944. USMC photograph [1500×1215]
A young Chamorro boy clutches his crucifix as he rides to a civilian interment camp during the battle of Saipan, July 1944. USMC photograph [1500×1215]
**The Chamorro people are the indigenous inhabitants of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific.**
**“After the Japanese surrender, the people here** were concentrated into internment camps,” **Noel** says. “All the people who were captured were taken to Chalan Kanoa and Susupe. But the Chamorro and Carolinians were in one area. Japanese civilians, Okinawans, Koreans were in another; and then Japanese soldiers were in different areas, because they were being interrogated.”
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**The Chamorro people are the indigenous inhabitants of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific.**
**“After the Japanese surrender, the people here** were concentrated into internment camps,” **Noel** says. “All the people who were captured were taken to Chalan Kanoa and Susupe. But the Chamorro and Carolinians were in one area. Japanese civilians, Okinawans, Koreans were in another; and then Japanese soldiers were in different areas, because they were being interrogated.”
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