The U.S. Marine Who Made 1,000 Japanese Soldiers Surrender—Alone

July 1944, Saipan. U.S. Marine Corporal Guy Gabaldon, a skinny kid of Mexican descent who spoke Japanese, crept to enemy caves at night. Shouting promises of death if they resisted, he persuaded groups to surrender. First dozens, then hundreds — by the end, more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians laid down their arms. Nicknamed the “Little Napoleon of Saipan,” he received the Navy Cross for his incredible feat.

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