Saipan

People who believe the Japanese captured and killed the aviators have pointed to everything from a generator retrieved in a Saipan harbor in 1960 to a photograph on a Jaluit dock revealed in 2017.

His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.

That night, Post-it notes from Islanders from Guam, Saipan, Hawaii and Puerto Rico appeared on his door.

Military records show he was lost at sea off Saipan in March 1945.

The weather service office issues forecasts for Guam as well as several islands to the north — Saipan, Tinian and Rota — that are part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, another U.S. territory.