Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wake, Redemption. When the Stars & Stripes went up on Wake Island (see cut), the U.S. redeemed the second territory (after Guam) to be occupied by a foreign foe since...
...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...
...keen young officer trained for occupation duties was asked at Guam last week whether he thought the enormous, complex job of changing Japan could be done. His answer: yes. He was asked whether he thought the U.S. would in fact succeed in doing it. His answer...
When Bigart stepped out of the B-29 after a 15-hour flight, he was in a world at peace. From Guam he filed what may have been the last eyewitnesser...
...Time. Homer Bigart, and many a city-room veteran like him, now wanted to return to assignments where one person getting killed at a time was news. Said Bigart at Guam last week: "A lot of foreign news is going to sound dull after the war. I wouldn't mind writing murder stories for a while-if I could pick the murders I wanted to cover...