Don Farrell is a retired educator and has been a battlefield guide since 2007. Mr. Farrell is the author of numerous books and articles relative to the history of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, including the only history of the Northern Mariana Islands. His books have been the standard for history in the school system for both Guam and the Northern Marianas. They include, Liberation 1944; The Sacrifice of Guam, 1919-1943 (The Pictorial History of Guam); History of the Mariana Islands to Partition; and his most recent, Atomic Bomb Island: Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II.
Mr. Farrell served in the U.S. Air Force from 1965 to 1971, and moved to Guam in 1977, eventually becoming the Chief of Staff to the Governor. Don made Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands his home in 1987 and now serves on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Humanities Council Board of Directors and the CNMI Historic Preservation Board of Directors. AHP is thankful to have the subject matter expert on Operation Forager, the crucial Mariana Islands Campaign in the Pacific War.
