HAGATÑA, Guam (AP) — For Antonina Palomo Cross, Japan's occupation of Guam started with terror at church. The then-7-year-old was attending Catholic services with ...

Nearly 80 years ago, American forces launched a successful invasion of Guam. The island had fallen into Imperial Japanese control in 1941, just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and as the ...

HAGATÑA For Antonina Palomo Cross, Japan s occupation of Guam started with terror at church. The then-7-year-old was attending Catholic services with her family when ...

Survivors of the Japanese World War II occupation of Guam and their descendants have received $4.13 million in compensation under a 2021 territorial law, according to the governor’s office. Over the ...

The World War II battle for Guam doesn’t get the attention that popular historians reserve for better-known Pacific epic fights on Okinawa or Iwo Jima, but author James Hallas is about to correct that ...

I wrote in my column last week about how the meaning of historical commemoration depends largely on where we begin and end the story. History is filled with lessons, but how we bring its elements into ...

U.S. soldiers walk by a bombed out cemetery in Agana, Guam in 1944. The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam, which happened on the same December day as the attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, set off years of ...

HAGATÑA, Guam (AP) — More than 3,000 people on Guam are expecting to get long-awaited compensation from the U.S. government for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II.

FILE - This August, 1944 file photo shows a group of U.S. soldiers siting in the foothills near Hagåtña, Guam. The 1941 Japanese invasion of Guam, which happened on the same December day as the attack ...