Sunday 20 September 1998

Big Guns

Title – Big Guns
Date – September 1998
Location - Chuck - Micronesia

The conflict in the Pacific ocean during WWII is sometimes the forgotten war in much of Europe, but the conflict here was equally as devastating and cost millions of lives throughout the region. But in the pacific the monuments to the war are less ceremonial and more real.

The Japanese occupied many of the islands in the region and had in places dug tunnels literally running for hundreds of kilometres through the hills to enable them to be defended from every side without ever needing to leave the safety of these bunkers. They stand to this day as a monument to those souls lost during the conflict and a memory to the time when the peace and tranquillity of this part of the world was destroyed by many alien nations fighting for control of this region of such strategic importance.

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Image – ©Peter Mayhew

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