Guam in midst of Japan's ocean empire 3

The Governor's Palace, adjacent to the Plaza de Espana, was the headquarters for the American naval governors responsible for the administration of the island.

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The China Clipper, a Martin flying boat of Pan American Airways, docks off Sumay in November 1935 on the first transPacific air mail flight. The aircraft, with its 130-foot wingspread, began its 16,000-mile voyage from Alameda, Calif., soared over the seas to Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila, then doubled back the same way for the return (top). Marine Henry Delooff poses near the bow of the Clipper. The Pan American base and the Marine Barracks were both located in Sumay, which was devastated in the Liberation (right).
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Men of the Insular Force Guard march in parade (top). Paid $30 a month, they performed duties of naval enlisted men and dressed like Navy personnel; the group was attached to the Naval Station garrison. The Insular Guard, members of which challenged the Japanese invasion force at the Plaza de Espana on Dec. 10, 1941, were part of this group. The group was established only months before the war's beginning. At top right and bottom, members of the Guam Militia drill in formation at the Piti Navy Yard. The pre-war, quasi-military organization was manned by volunteers.

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Sumay village, in what is now the Naval Station, rivaled Agana as the island's commercial center in pre-war Guam (top). Governor George McMillin and his family in a portrait. He was the naval governor of Guam on Dec. 8, 1941 (bottom, left). Three Chamorro women pose for a photograph (bottom, right).

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