War in the Pacific War in the Pacific National Historic Park An Administrative History

Cover

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: Pre-European Contact

Chapter 2: Visitors From Afar

Chapter 3: America on Guam: 1898 - 1950

Chapter 4: The Organic Act

Chapter 5: Pre-Legislation Planning and Preparation: 1952 - 1978

Chapter 6: Social and Political Context of the Park's Creation and Evolution

Chapter 7: Lands

Chapter 8: Creating a Park Presence: The Newman Era 1979 - 1982

Chapter 9: Expanding Park Operations: The Reyes Years 1983 - 1991

Chapter 10: Decade of Special Events: Wood and Gustin Era 1991 - 2002

Endnotes

Appendices

Appendix 1: Land Ownership, 1979

Appendix 2: Comments During Preparation of the General Management Plan

Appendix 3: Initial Suggested Boundary Changes

Appendix 4: Histories of Units of the Park

Appendix 5: Introductory Comments on the Floor of the House of Representatives by Rep Richard Which, January 18, 1967

Appendix 6: World War II Historic Sites and Features Extant in 1967

Appendix 7: Organic Act Land Title Provisions

Appendix 8: The Park's Enabling Legislation

Appendix 9: C-MAP and CR-MAP

Appendix 10: Plant Communities

1-1 Schematic of typical asymmetrical Chamorro hull

1-2 Proa anatomy

1-3 Portrait of Chamorro family

1-4 Chamorro multi-family residence

2-1 Martyrdom of San Vitores

3-1 Guam Naval Militia

3-2 Pacific Ocean map showing location of Guam

3-3 U. S. military commanders on Guam, December 1944

5-1 War debris on Agat Invasion Beach in February 1967

5-2 Agat Beach in February 1967

5-3 Navy facility on Asan Point in February 1967

7-1 Table of land ownership in 1950 and 1951

7-2 Portrait of Won Pat

7-3 Table of land ownership inside park boundaries in 1979

7-4 Asan Beach Unit entrance sign

7-5 Piti gun emplacement

7-6 Piti guns

7-7 Gaan Point

7-8 Gaan Point

7-9 Apaca Point

7-10 Map of park lands

8-1 Portrait of Stell Newman

8-2 Portrait of Dr. Ballendorf

8-3 Portrait of Roqua Borja

10-1 Group photograph of park staff, 1996-1998