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<\/a>The Agat post office shares the same parking lot as the small Agat MacDonalds mentioned in a previous blog. To get service, you must ring the doorbell. The top half of the Dutch door in the corner opens for service and remains open for as short a time as possible to conserve the cooled air inside. The customer stays in the warm, humid outside air!<\/p><\/div>\n
We then headed to Gaan Point —\u00a0http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wapa\/planyourvisit\/gaan-point.htm<\/a> — which is next to the post office to take a couple of photos while there was still some morning sun.<\/p>\n Ga’an Point in Agat, Guam. This is the 200mm Japanese coastal defense gun mentioned in the above website.<\/p><\/div>\n An old pipeline at Ga’an Point that can also be seen in the previous photo — there is a similar one at Asan Beach. The park ranger did not know its original purpose. I have not located any information anywhere, but speculate that it was either a fuel line to deliver fuel to and\/or from ships, or possibly an old sewage line dumping just beyond the reef.<\/p><\/div>\n We decided to head back to the T. Snell Newman Visitor Center —\u00a0http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wapa\/t-stell-newman-visitor-center.htm<\/a> – for a third time.\u00a0 This time we finally saw all the exhibits that we wanted to see.\u00a0 While there, one of the rangers did a one hour presentation about Asan Point and Beach and how they have changed over the years since the retaking of Guam from the Japanese in July 1944.\u00a0 In recent years, attempts are being made to restore much of the beachfront to what it looked like in 1944.\u00a0 Originally, there were rice paddies, but now there is green grass where the paddies were — see Asan Overlook later on this page.<\/p>\n Virginia at the WWII Timeline exhibit at the visitor center. It gives an excellent, extensive timeline of events. This is where we spent much of our time at the visitor center.<\/p><\/div>\n We had a bite to eat in mid-afternoon at Taco Bell which is across the street from the visitor center.\u00a0 It was here that we first learned that we may be adapting to the heat in Guam.\u00a0 It felt so cold inside and when we came out we were almost relieved to feel the warmth!<\/p>\n Our next visit was to the Piti Guns.\u00a0 Fortunately, we had picked up a brochure —\u00a0http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wapa\/planyourvisit\/upload\/PitiGuns-for-web.pdf<\/a> — at the visitor center for directions, otherwise we would never have found it.\u00a0 It was not obvious, even with the directions. Fortunately, the brochure had a picture of the stairs behind the church’s social hall and I caught a brief glimpse of those stairs as we drove by.\u00a0 There were no signs on the street and the ‘parking’ was just a grass lawn.<\/p>\n Looking down the stairs at the back of the church’s social hall, which is really in need of maintenance.<\/p><\/div>\n The trail was about 1\/4 mile up to the gun placements. Can you imagine what this would have been like without a trail in World War II?<\/p><\/div>\n The first of three identical guns that could hit targets up to 10 miles away.<\/p><\/div>\n The second gun was toppled during a typhoon by a falling tree.<\/p><\/div>\n Gear at base of the second gun.<\/p><\/div>\n The third gun was in the best condition. The rifling can be clearly seen in the barrel.<\/p><\/div>\n This well hidden gun, with a 10+ mile range, is within 1\/2 mile of Apra Harbor and one mile of Asan Beach.<\/p><\/div>\n Couldn’t resist having Virginia take this photo!<\/p><\/div>\n At the second gun, we saw this frog. It is about 6 inches long from nose to tail. Wonder if it might be the same as the ‘barking’ frogs at the transmitter site heard constantly behind the transmitter building that sound like barking dogs? [Don’t think so — www.guaminsects.net\/gisac\/index.php?title=Rana_guentheri ]<\/p><\/div>From the Piti Guns, we headed up Nimitz Hill past KTWG — TWR’s first station (10,000-watt AM) on Guam completed in 1975 before the shortwave site KTWR went on the air on the south end of Guam at Merizo.\u00a0 KTWG has since been turned over to local Christian administration.<\/p>\n KTWG studio and office building with tall AM tower in the background.\u00a0 It also now houses two FM stations<\/p><\/div>\n At the top of Nimitz Hill is Asan Bay Overlook, an overlook of Asan Point and Beach, the beach mentioned by the ranger at the visitor center earlier today.\u00a0 It is now a large park with several memorials.<\/p><\/div>\n Just past Asan Bay Overlook, we found the site of Mangan Quarry which was used as the command post for the Japanese during the battle for Guam. This is the site of the Japanese Command under General Takeshima. It is located just over the top of Nimitz Hill opposite the side from which the American forces landed.<\/p><\/div>\n I took this photo through the left gate entrance to the Japanese command post. It tunnels quite far into the side of the hill.<\/p><\/div>\n This photo was taken from the front of the Japanese Command Headquarters. Initially, I thought the bare spot in the side of the hill might be the crash site of Korean Airlines 801 on August 6, 1997 [It is]. Only after examining the photo closely, the top of the black obelisk memorial can be seen (yellow arrow). It is on restricted federal property and is only possible to drive there using the usually locked access road on the anniversary dates of the crash. But it is accessible by a 1-1\/2 mile hike, if you can find the unmarked trail. 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