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"Marines' Pied Piper dies, aged 80."

Date: September 05, 2006
By and for: Philippe Naughton and Agencies

"An American Marine who became known as the Pied Piper of Saipan after single -handedly persuading more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender during the war for the Pacific in 1944 has died at the age of 80.

"Guy Gabaldon was brought up as a tough Chicano kid in the barrios of eastern Los Angeles and signed up for the Marines on his 17th birthday.

"He arrived on Saipan, a Japanese-held island in the Marianas, as an 18-year-old Marine Private First Class, only 5ft. 4in. tall, but managed to use street Japanese picked up from a foster family back home -- along with bribes of cigarettes and candy -- to persuade enemy troops to abandon their posts.

"In one single day, on July 8, 1944, Gabaldon was said to have enticed 800 Japanese, both soldiers and civilians, to surrender with a mixture of threats and a promise that all prisoners would be well treated..."

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