Radio Barrigada

To its south, the Barrigada Transmitter Site, operated by Andersen Air Force Base, lies partially within Mangilao.

During the Spanish-Chamorro Wars of the late seventeenth century, residents were forced into centralized areas as part of the Spanish policy of Reducción.

More than 200 correspondents accredited to the headquarters of Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet/Pacific Ocean Areas in Nimitz Hill Annex were allowed to file stories through NU5Q.

[5] During the first six weeks of the Battle of Okinawa, over 300 radio programs were relayed from transmitters aboard USS Eldorado through KU5Q to the mainland U.S.

Recordings of the surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri on September 2, 1945 were sent to a Japanese radio station and flown to Guam for broadcast by NU5Q.

The Barrigada broadcast, received by an RCA shortwave communications center near San Francisco, was chosen by U.S. networks as clearer and rebroadcast to the public.