111-SC-224001: Raising the American flag over Camp Rokuroshi. Left to right_ Lt. Commander William J. Gailbraith, USN, from Knoxville, Tenn., captured on the USS Houston, March, 1942, Lt. Col. Donald Spicer, USMC, from Augusta, Georgia., who asked to raise the flag because he surrendered the first American territory to Japs on Guam on Dec 10, 1941, and Capt. Jack K. Boyer, from Taos, N.M., Anti Aircraft, Coast Artillery, captured on Bataan, April 9, 1942.
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