The Massacre at Atåte, 2nd Edition

Jose M. Torres

• Publisher: University of Guam Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781935198628
• eBook ISBN:
  9781961058101
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Torres' story of courage, endurance and heroism in 'The Massacre at Atåte'

The Massacre at Atåte tells the story of the courageous people of the idyllic southern village of Malesso' in Guam, who liberated themselves from the violent occupation of their village by Japanese forces during World War II. After scores of their relatives were killed in two massacres, a group of CHamoru men rose up in a littleknown place called Atåte, where they fought and massacred the Japanese to protect their families. The book includes an introduction by Guam's former Representative to U.S. Congress Dr. Robert A. Underwood, and an afterword by Guam Historian Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Last Feast
• Prewar Years (Historical Notes)
• Pre-war Malesso’
• A Sign of the Changing Times
• The Path to War and Invasion of Guam (Historical Notes)
• The Japanese Occupation of Malesso’
• Occupation (Historical Notes)
• Laboring from Dusk to Dawn
• My Search for Atåte
• I Found My People
• The Tinta Massacre
• Final Tragedies and Trauma (Historical Notes)
• The Massacre of the Japanese at Atåte
• The Japanese Are Choked to Death
• Six Volunteers to Contact the Americans Stepped Up
• An Additional Dead Japanese
• In Search of Help from the Americans
• Guam’s liberation begins in Atåte (Historical Notes)
• On the Open Seas in Search of Help
• Put Ashore
• My People Arrive at the Hågat Camp
• The Malesso’ People Return Home
• We Reach Our Låncho
• The Fåha Victims Found
• A Tribute to Jose “Pop Tonko” Soriano Reyes
• Afterword
• Appendices