Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blacked out and unescorted, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis was 39 hours out on the moonlit Philippine Sea, bound for the U.S.'s great new anchorage at Leyte. She had carried vital materials for the first atomic bomb from the States to Guam, and now, on Sunday, July 29, was logging 17 knots to rejoin the fleet. Shortly before midnight the end came for the veteran (commissioned in 1932) clipper-bowed "Indy." Two explosions on her starboard side smashed her communications, fouled her controls. She sank within 15 minutes...
...anyone here today proud of being an American?" Said others: "The Japs are now dictating the peace." In Honolulu, veterans of the Spanish-American War proclaimed that they would not "join in any parade celebrating the victory of Emperor Hirohito over our Washington politicians. We have lost face." On Guam, B-29 airmen quit their kidding about "Tokyo Tours...
Three of the proposed big bases are prewar U.S. possessions: the Panama Canal Zone, the Hawaiian Islands, the Aleutians (probable base: Adak). The others: i) the entire Mariana group (Guam, Saipan, Tinian, 12 smaller islands) which taken together may be the U.S. Navy's postwar headquarters; 2) a Central Philippines base, probably on Leyte Gulf, which the Filipinos would undoubtedly grant...
June-August: Saipan, Tinian and Guam were captured. The Fifth Fleet fought the First Battle of the Philippine Sea off Saipan, shot down 404 planes, sank three carriers...
...ride the lead planes, take them in to the targets, give the signal for all planes in the formation to drop their bombs. New crews and re-educated crews trained together in practice runs on LeMay's bombing range: the bypassed island of Rota, 60 miles north of Guam...