Chamorros risked torture and death to hide a U.S. soldier

Evidence

President Roosevelt’s government celebrated the Chamorros for their exceptional heroism under occupation. For two and a half years, locals hid and kept alive a member of the U.S. defense force who refused to surrender after the Japanese invasion. When the Japanese learned there was an American in hiding, Chamorros suffered torture and execution to keep his secret. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 239

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, striking loyalty story — a colonized people torturing themselves protecting the colonizer’s soldier — good for an aside or anecdote.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 239