| Description: | The public catholic cemetery of Anigua, Guam, has become the temporary home of approximately 7,000 Guamanians liberated from the Japanese rule by American forces. The settlement sprang up over night. Advancing Marines and soldiers destroyed or pushed back the Japanese so speedily, that the civilians were freed from concentration camps or were able to reach the American lines safely. The living found a dry campsite among the smashed and battered tombstones and within a few days the camp was humming with activity- births and deaths, waterlines, chow lines and all the necessities of the living; after two and a half years under Japanese rule. The people were grateful for their freedom but there was much to be done for them since their homes and ranches had been destroyed by the war, and their normal life was disrupted by Japanese tyranny. The scenes shown here are daily routine in the Marine Civil Affairs camp established in one corner of the Spanish Catholic cemetery at Anigua, on the outskirts of the wrecked capital of Agana. |
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Life After the War
