Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next, in a cave on the side of a hill overlooking the sea, Tweed felt "for the first time in over three months . . . that I had successfully eluded the Japs long enough to enjoy a breathing spell. . . . My cave was well concealed, and I was already turning over in my mind the ways in which I would make it more comfortable." With ingenuity and the help of an enterprising Chamorro he soon succeeded...
Good Man Friday. A stolen gasoline generator was rigged to provide current for a light bulb and another salvaged radio. With the aid of a battered but usable typewriter, Tweed even began publication of a newspaper, the Guam Eagle, (for a circulation of five loyal Chamorros.) "My cave became a rendezvous. It was growing more comfortable all the time. ... In exchange for world news supplied by the radio and the Guam Eagle, I received a steady flow of supplies and local intelligence from a few friends." All this had to be abandoned hastily when Tweed discovered that the Chamorro...
...Hard Way. The terrain, made to order for defense, is the second reason. On Iwo the Japs dug themselves in so deeply that all the explosives in the world could hardly have reached them. Each hillside, every gully has its carefully camouflaged caves. One in the 4th Division area is estimated to be 800 yards long, with 14 entrances. Each cave entrance is protected by many pillboxes which can be spotted only at closest range. Around one entrance to a 200-yd. cave, I counted seven pillboxes which had housed machine guns covering every conceivable approach. Our chances of defilading...
...filled with possibilities where it had held only menace before. Because the women looked to him confidently, expecting him to save them in each crisis of attack or hunger, he was driven to superhuman feats of courage and ingenuity. To make a home, he drove a bear from a cave in the cliffs. He killed a mammoth caught in a pit by building a fire around...
...fire also proved his undoing. The fleet, supple, Cro-Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...