Lessons of War from Pohnpei
Falgout, Suzanne (1991). Lessons of War from Pohnpei. Cultural Encounters in the Pacific War. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii at Manoa. pp. 123–131.
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Abstract: What exactly happened to the island ofPohnpei and its people during World War II? As Lin Poyer (chapter 7) has pointed out, written sources of the period are based primarily on Allied military documents, and the information they provide is limited to strategic plans, dates, and targets of attack plus some intelligence data on Japanese activities (Crowl 1960; Morison 1975; Richard 1957; Sherrod 1952). The limited nature of this information combined with the use of such seemingly innocuous labels as "neutralized" and "bypassed" tends to downplay wartime activities on the island. Furthermore, the reader is left to wonder if there were any native inhabitants on the island or how they were involved. Yet it is clear to all but the most casual visitor to the island that the people of Pohnpei were significantly involved in the war and that they consider World War II to be an important part of their own history. In 19801981 I lived in the Wene area of the Kitti chiefdom located in the southern part of Pohnpei. During my stay World War II was a topic that was still discussed by older men and women in daily conversations around the household and at informal kava gatherings of neighbors and friends in the evenings, and warsongs continued to be broadcast over the local radio station. I returned in the summer of 1985 to ask women and men of Pohnpei to share their memories of the war with me...
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