HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
“Filipino workers, predominantly Visayans, soon flooded into Guam by military and chartered civilian transportation at a rate of up to 500 per month. A lively financial industry grew to handle thousands of dollars in currency exchanges and in remittances by workers to their families in the Philippines. Huge camps, towns in fact, were constructed to house these men and the few Filipinas among them.
"The largest, Camp Roxas north of Agat-Santa Rita (on former Bordallo land), with mess halls, movie houses, a beach and miles of dreary barracks, held 7,000 men, mostly Visayans. Camps Edusa near Dededo, and Marbo (named after the air force’s Marianas-Bonin command area) and also called Magsaysay City) in Yigo housed mostly Ilocanos and Tagalogs.
"Camp Quezon was in Mangilao near the present site of the University of Guam. Camp Asan, located on the site of the old Asan presidio that held Filipino rebels in 1902-1903, housed American civilian employees of the military. Camp Asan, unlike the other camps, contained a bowling alley and other amenities. It would become an annex to the Naval Hospital in 1968 and then closed in 1972, only to be reopened temporarily in 1975 to house Vietnamese refugees.”
