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Guy Louis Gabaldon (March 22, 1926 – August 31, 2006) was a Chicano in the United States Marine who, at age 18, captured or persuaded to surrender over 1,300 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the battles for Saipan and Tinian islands in 1944 during World War II. Called "Gabby" by his friends, he became known as "The Pied Piper of Saipan ...
Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II marine, heart attack. [240] J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [241] David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron, 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert. [242] Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [243]
Guy Gabaldon, USMC, semi-fluent in Japanese, awarded Navy Cross for valor at Saipan, 1944. "The Pied Piper of Saipan", on his own initiative convinced app.1,500 Japanese troops to surrender during combat operations, also acquiring in the process valuable intelligence that shortened the campaign, thereby saving Marine and Japanese lives.
“The Candy Man” singer was part of the Rat Pack in the ’60s and died of throat cancer in 1990 at age 64. While Davis Jr. died with a sizable estate of $4 million, he owed $5.2 million in ...
Dayle Haddon, an actress and former supermodel, has died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.She was 76. Solebury Township Police arrived at the Bucks County, Penn., home of her son-in-law ...
Hell to Eternity is a 1960 American World War II film starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone and Patricia Owens, directed by Phil Karlson.This film biopic is about the true experiences of Marine hero Pfc. Guy Gabaldon (played by Hunter), a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese American foster family, and his heroic actions during the Battle of Saipan.
The wife of a Texas news anchor who died suddenly is thanking those who have shown their support after her husband’s death. Kris Radcliffe “died unexpectedly” at the age of 51 on Wednesday ...
Nakano grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Nakano had two brothers, Frank and Lyle and two sisters, May and Lucy. [2] [3]Nakano's family unofficially adopted legendary Marine Corps combat interpreter Guy Gabaldon at age 12.