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...Japs had kicked the Navy out in December 1941. When the Navy came back in July 1944, it came prepared to settle down. Dredge boats plowed into Apra Harbor on Guam's west coast while the Japs were still resisting in the jungle-covered hills. Trucks moved mountains of coral sand to build a breakwater. Red-faced Seabees in green baseball caps, looking like goggled gods on their bulldozers, invaded the tropical paradise with noise and construction. By last week they had moved enough of Guam's earth to bury Tokyo's Imperial Palace, with...
Bustamante's Democratic Front was a coalition of many elements, including some conservatives. But strong within it was the long-outlawed Apra Party (Apristas),* which appeals to the Indian masses of Peru. One probable result of Bustamante's election would be a new deal for the Indians. General Ureta's defeat would be excellent news for Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, which have long worried about the aggressive designs of the bumptious Peruvian Army...
Maps Outdated. For security reasons, the extent and nature of the harbor installations at Guam can be indicated only in the broadest terms. This much can be said: the Japanese left Port Apra much as they found it, with berths for only half a dozen oceangoing ships at most. Six months after the marines landed on either side of it, Port Apra was swallowed up in a harbor development unrivaled in the Pacific. The old charts are worse than useless today; even the topographic maps must be changed, for an island has been leveled to provide fill...
South of the Bonins 900 miles, the battle for Guam was near its end. The unpredictable Japs had elected not to defend the southern half of the island after Orote Peninsula fell. Last week U.S. ships swarmed into Port Apra, found the harbor in excellent shape for moving in supplies...
Behind them, Seabees and Army engineers repaired the roads. Before them lay Apra harbor, its turquoise waters whipped into white streaks by PT-boats on guard against enemy movement. U.S. ships returned to the harbor-the first since the minesweeper Penguin was sunk Dec. 8, 1941. Supplies began to flow in for the attack inland. Patrols probed seven miles across the island. Main bodies followed, cut Guam in half...