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  MARCH, 1944
Explosions and fires were ob­served among ground installations at Ponape, and waterfront facilities were hit at Kusaie.
Kusaie was bombed by Army Liberators and a beached cargo ship was hit by Navy search planes with bombs and machine gun fire.
Liberator bombers of the Seventh Army Air Force bombed Ponape and Kusaie in the Caroline Islands on March 17 causing explosions and fires.
www.ibiblio.org /pha/comms/1944-03.html   (3808 words)

  
 Kusaie Island
Kusaie Island – Kusaie is located about 330 nautical miles southeast of Ponape and consists of one large mountainous island with an area of about 65 square miles.
At each end of the valley, a deep harbor is located – Okat Harbor on the west coast, and Lele Harbor on the east.
Kusaie became part of the Japanese Empire in 1914 when it was ceded by Germany and remained occupied by the Japanese through the end of the Second World War.
www.vmb-613.com /maps/kusaie_map.html   (119 words)

  
 Kusaie Photo Gallery
Between the signing of the capitulation documents on board USS Missouri BB 63, 2 Sept 1945 and the end of the year, Japanese garrisons on the Asiatic mainland and on bypassed islands scattered throughout the western Pacific surrendered.
USS Ricketts DE 254 took part in the liberation and occupation of Kusaie from 10 September until 13 October, 1945.
Ponape natives aboard Ricketts being returned to Ponape from Kusaie where they were brought by the Japanese for slave labor.
www.desausa.org /kusaie_photo_gallery.htm   (388 words)

  
 Kusaie Island Surrender
After her arrival at Eniwetok, Ricketts was ordered to accept the surrender and to help establish the occupation of an isolated Japanese garrison on Kusaie, a bypassed island in the Caroline Islands.
Ricketts got under-way for Kusaie one week later to assist in the disarming of the Japanese and to set up a military government.
Ricketts was involved in the liberation of Kusaie from 10 September until 13 October, 1945.
www.desausa.org /Stories/kusaie_island.htm   (474 words)

  
  The Role of the Beachcombers in the Caroline Islands, Page 3
Kusaie had a single paramount chief with jurisdiction over the entire island, while Ponape was divided into five autonomous chiefdoms.
Moreover, the beachcomber was not nearly as economically vital to Kusaie as he was to Ponape.
Kusaie's chief could aflord to be discriminating in allowing whites to settle on the island--and he was!
nopukob.com /fsm/beachcombers3.htm   (1139 words)

  
  The Role of the Beachcombers in the Caroline Islands
On Kusaie, to judge from the evidence, it was the swift and brutal massacre of all the whites living on the island--not for their 'base and unprincipled conduct', but because of a wholly different kind of threat they posed to the native population.
Within a year there were beachcombers again established on Kusaie, but upon the visit of a British ship in February 1844 most of these new arrivals requested passage to Ponape out of fear for their lives if it ever became generally known that they were familiar with the circumstances of the Harriett's loss.
Kusaie had a single paramount chief with jurisdiction over the entire island, while Ponape was divided into five autonomous chiefdoms.
www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/rolebch.htm   (5098 words)

  
 tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Here are three men of Kusaie working on a classic Micronesian canoe, with outrigger.
Wood must have ben plentiful on the mountains of Kusaie, and the USCC's report referred to local logging industries.
In our congested, breakaway world, this picture of the South Pacific in 1946, of an island that was left relatively untouched by the passage of the war, is especially poignant.
www.california.com /~ahebert/gabrieli/LCI983/tour.html   (461 words)

  
 CAROLINE - LoveToKnow Article on CAROLINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
is covered by the four main islands, Ponape and Kusaie in the eastern group, Trukor Hogolu in the central, and Yap in the westerra These~islaItds ard of considerable elevation (the highest point of Ponape approaches 3000 ft.), but the rest are generally low coral islets.
He decided in favor of Spain; but gave Germany free trading rights; and in 1899 Germany took over the administration of the islands from Spain, paying 25,000,000 pesetas (nearly 1,000,000 sterling).
Ancient Stone Buildings.In Ponape and Kusaie, massive stone structures, similar to those which occur in several other parts of the Pacific Ocean, have longbeen known to exist.
47.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAROLINE.htm   (953 words)

  
 World War II
After two days in Ebeye, Soley was assigned to Task Unit 96.15.1 and, in company with USS Hyman, proceeded to Kusaie Island in the Eastern Carolines to take part in the surrender of Japanese forces on the island.
Kusaie was one of the smaller islands by-passed by American forces during the Pacific war.
Later that day Commodore Wyatt departed Kusaie on board USS Hyman leaving Soley there to enforce the surrender terms.
www.usssoley.org /wwII.htm   (1325 words)

  
 EL Tiempo en Kusaie / Kosrae East - Predicción y condiciones actuales
EL Tiempo en Kusaie / Kosrae East - Predicción y condiciones actuales
Predicción y condiciones actuales Kusaie / Kosrae East, datos de situación, fases lunares, calendario solar, mapa, fotos, etc..
Kusaie / Kosrae East - Latitud: 5.33333 - Longitud 163.03333
www.tutiempo.net /tiempo/Kusaie_Kosrae_East/PTSA.htm   (135 words)

  
 Dick Williams - Kusaie
On Lellu island, just across the harbor from main dock area of Kusaie.
In 1972, I sailed deck passage on the old M/V (Merchant Vessel) Kaselehlia and lived in Kusaie for a year or so.
As a display of American firepower and accuracy, several tanks and cars were positioned up in the hills, whereupon a destroyer or two opened up on them and hit them all!
www.pacificwrecks.com /people/visitors/rwilliams/kusaie.html   (357 words)

  
 Indigenization as a Missionary Goal in the Caroline-Marshall Islands
In accordance with the established policy of the day, there was no rush to make converts; it was six years after their coming that the first natives were received into the church of Kusaie, and eight years before the first three Ponapeans were admitted.
By 1869, the first native deacon (the son of "Good King George" of Kusaie) was ordained, and two years later another was elevated to the ministry.
Already in 1880, when the training school for the Marshalls was relocated in Kusaie and the last of the American missionaries removed from Ebon, the entire Marshalls mission was left to the care of a small band of Hawaiian teachers together with a few Marshallese who had been trained in the local mission school.
www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/indmiss.htm   (7837 words)

  
 tour
Here are three men of Kusaie working on a classic Micronesian canoe, with outrigger.
Wood must have ben plentiful on the mountains of Kusaie, and the USCC's report referred to local logging industries.
In our congested, breakaway world, this picture of the South Pacific in 1946, of an island that was left relatively untouched by the passage of the war, is especially poignant.
users.california.com /~ahebert/gabrieli/LCI983/tour.html   (461 words)

  
 Micronesia
Besides, if Kusaie is quoted as a component as soon as 1965, then definitely Truk should be as well.
Truk (now Chuuk) was a constituent entity long before Kusaie was separated from Ponape, and from then on Kusaie was called Kosrae.
In particular, I would be surprised to hear that the sixth star on the Pacific Islands Territory Trust flag stood for Kusaie and not for Truk.
flagspot.net /flags/fm.html   (421 words)

  
 Her Visit to Kusaie
THOUGH it was only three hundred and fifty miles from Mentchikoff Island to Kusaie, we were ten days in making the passage, owing to head-winds and calms.
Much of Micronesia is in the "doldrums," as the sailors call the low latitudes; and often, while passing from one island to another, our patience is sorely tried by fitful breezes, ocean-currents, and the torrid sun.
Snow and Dr. Pierson with their families, we set sail for Ponape, September 15th, to visit the missionaries there, and to hold a meeting of the Micronesia mission, to decide what new stations should be occupied, and what men should commence them.
www.nopukob.com /religion/morningstar9.htm   (721 words)

  
 Kosrae - TheBestLinks.com - Kusaie, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Airport, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kosrae - TheBestLinks.com - Kusaie, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Airport,...
Kusaie, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Airport, Caroline...
It is a state of the Federated States of Micronesia with a population of 7,700 and a part of the Caroline Islands.
www.thebestlinks.com /Kusaie.html   (99 words)

  
 Philip Delaporte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Philip Adam Delaporte, a German born American Protestant missionary, was sent to Nauru with his family in November of 1899.
They came from Hawaii via Kusaie under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sent by the Central Union Church of Honolulu.
The mission had been started some ten years earlier by a Gilbertese pastor, Tabuia, and it maintained a school, which along with the Catholic mission's school, comprised the only formal educational system on the island for more than two decades.
www.tocatch.info /en/Philip_Delaporte.htm   (425 words)

  
 Jenny Olin Papers
After teaching school for four years in Massachusetts, she went to Kusaie, which is one of the Caroline Islands of Micronesia, in the South Pacific.
The purpose was to visit other missions, replace the staff in some missions, and enable the young people who had been attending school at Kusaie to visit their homes.
The disastrous earthquake in San Francisco was one of the factors involved in the decision to keep the school in Kusaie, "for lumber and vessels to bring it down have risen to twice their former price" (1906 August 20).
www.clements.umich.edu /Gurls/Guides/Olin.html   (1777 words)

  
 Hiram Bingham, Jr. - Story of the Morning Star, 1866
The Caroline, in taking missionaries to Kusaie and Ponape, had passed the Gilbert Islands on the left, where there were some 30,000 or 40,000 heathen, and the Marshall Islands on the right, where there were at least 10,000.
Though the Morning Star sailed from Kusaie for the Gilbert Islands, she was compelled by the winds to pass near Ebon.
Every available reader is put to work in teaching 'the book;' and it is very gratifying to see the progress many are making." He can point you to large congregations, "clothed and in their right mind." He can show you his churches with nearly two hundred church-members, whom he believes to be true Christians.
www.trussel.com /kir/mornstar.htm   (17291 words)

  
 UNHCR - Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Congress may provide for a smooth and orderly transition to government under this Constitution.
In the first congressional election, congressional districts are apportioned among the states as follows: Kusaie - 1; Marianas - 2; Marshalls - 4; Palau - 2; Ponape - 3; Truk - 5; Yap - 1.
If Kusaie is not a state at the time of the first election, 4 members shall be elected on the basis of population in Ponape.
www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd/rsddocview.html?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=3ae6b51f18&count=15   (346 words)

  
 Page 16
There are training-institutions at Kusaie in the Carolinas, and in Ocean Island.
In 1880 the headquarters were removed to Kusaie in the Caroline Islands, and a training-college was opened there.
The American Board has now 4 missionaries for the group, two residing at Kusaie, 20 churches, 83 places of worship, 3,371 church-members, 4,163 Christian Endeavorers, 87 schools, and 1,417 scholars.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc11/htm/old/0036=16.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Narrative of missionary events on Kosrae 1852 to 1857
The narrative of missionary events on Kusaie [[Kosrae]] is one of a surpassing interest as reported by Mr.
The subject of this first discourse on Kusaie was the fourth commandment and the very gratifying result was that before another sacred day arrived, labor on the sabbath was prohibited.
The company that landed on Kusaie numbered about one hundred men, women, and children, several of whom died soon after their arrival, from their sufferings on the ocean.
www.comfsm.fm /~dleeling/kosrae/benjamin_snow.html   (13048 words)

  
 USS Soley
She reached Pearl Harbor 10 days later and was routed onward to the Marshall Islands, arriving at Kwajalein on 5 September.
Soley joined Task Unit (TU) 96.15.1, a Military Government Unit, which sortied for Kusaie Island, on 7 September, to take part in the acceptance of the surrender of Japanese forces.
The surrender articles were signed on the 8th, and Soley remained at Kusaie as station ship until mid-October.
www.multied.com /Navy/destroyer2/soley.html   (1032 words)

  
 Micronesia
Besides, if Kusaie is quoted as a component as soon as 1965, then definitely Truk should be as well.
Truk (now Chuuk) was a constituent entity long before Kusaie was separated from Ponape, and from then on Kusaie was called Kosrae.
In particular, I would be surprised to hear that the sixth star on the Pacific Islands Territory Trust flag stood for Kusaie and not for Truk.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/fm.html   (421 words)

  
 FSM Constitution
The Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia was drafted by the Micronesian Constitutional Convention in 1975 in Saipan.
The Convention was convened by the Congress of Micronesia, which at that time included representation from the Ponape, Kusaie, Truk, and Yap Districts of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), and which also included the Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Northern Mariana Islands Districts.
The FSM Constitution was ratified in 1978, with the voters of the Ponape, Kusaie, Truk, and Yap Districts approving the Constitution.
www.fsmlaw.org /fsm/constitution/index.htm   (648 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kusaie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A bibliography of Kusaie Island with a short history of research on Kusaie by Philip L Ritter (Unknown Binding - 1976)
A history of Kusaie or Strong's Island in the 1800's by Sherman Lee Pompey (Unknown Binding - 1970)
Ascension Island rail (Atlantisia elpenor) Kusaie Island crake (Porzana monasa)...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Kusaie&index=blended&page=1   (915 words)

  
 FSM History
Ponape (then including Kusaie), Truk, Yap, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, together constituted the TTPI.
The United States accepted the role of Trustee of this, the only United Nations Trusteeship to be designated as a "Security Trusteeship," whose ultimate disposition was to be determined by the UN Security Council.
On July 12, 1978, following a Constitutional Convention, the people of four of the former Districts of the Trust Territory, Truk (now Chuuk), Yap, Ponape (now Pohnpei) and Kusaie (now Kosrae) voted in a referendum to form a Federation under the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
www.fsmgov.org /info/hist.html   (616 words)

  
 Micronesian Games 2006
MARSHALL IS. The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island.
KOSRAE Kosrae (pronounced "ko SHRIGH"), also known as Kusaie, is an island in Micronesia.
It is a state of the Federated States of Micronesia with a population of 7,700 and a part of the Caroline Islands.
cnmi.net /microgames/countries.php   (518 words)

  
 King John Proposes | TIME
For years Kusaie was an island of savagery.
When Americans returned to Kusaie last year they found the natives again impoverished and racked by disease.
Last week King John of Kusaie solemnly inscribed in his native language a petition to the President of the U.S. It said: "We earnestly desire that Kusaie be made a permanent possession, and we request that our people shall be kept forever under the protection of the American flag."
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,792574,00.html?iid=chix-del   (437 words)

  
 Caroline Islands --  Encyclopædia Britannica
archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, the islands of which comprise the Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae [Kusaie], Pohnpei [Ponape], Chuuk [Truk], and Yap) and Palau.
The Carolines may be divided into two physiographic units: to the east, coral caps surmount mountains of volcanic origin; while to the west, the islands are sections of the Earth's crust that have been…
The Carolines may be divided into two physiographic units: to the east, coral caps surmount mountains of volcanic origin; while to the west, the islands are sections of the Earth's crust that have...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020434   (769 words)

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