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| Written by Jeff Marchesseault, Guam News Factor Staff Writer | |||||||||
| Saturday, 27 June 2009 11:02 | |||||||||
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A WWII Veteran Recalls...
GUAM - When Japan surrendered to America in 1945, Third Class Ship Fitter Jim Ackerman was sent to Guam as a Seabee (C.B: Construction Battalion) to help clean up a war-ravaged Guam. Working 10-hour days, seven days a week, he helped build a sewer system for the hospital, suffered jungle rot, lived in a 10-foot square canvas tent with two other Seabees for nine months, and shared sea rations with Japanese prisoners of war who were too ashamed to return home in defeat and who helped with the postwar cleanup effort on island. Ackerman assisted in overseeing the POWs and told the Lexington Clipper-Herald: "You never know what you're going to do when there's a big war on. You just go where they send you." "I always said if they put me on guard duty, at night, up at the water station, it would scare the hell out of me," he said. “I don’t know how many were there,” Ackerman continued. “I don’t have any idea, and I have no idea when they went home. They were still there when I went home. They didn’t want to go back (to Japan). They felt disgraced.” Read the Lexington Clipper-Herald story, "Ackerman recalls his time at Guam", June 26, 2009.
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