Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the 424 years after Magellan called at Guam, the people of the Marianas had little but grief at the hands of their Spanish, German and Japanese masters. But U.S. suzerainty is something different. There was word last week that an election had been held on Saipan...
...last week a heavy-jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...
From London to Guam, LeMay's men have always understood two things: 1) an order is just that-the Old Man never checks up on an order, but disobedience brings dismissal; 2) the Old Man never orders anything he can't do himself. A favorite LeMay conference remark: "Now, does everybody understand this? If not, I'll show you how to do it myself...
...carrying as much bomb weight as 3,000 B-17s, would be hitting Japan day after day, and the increased power of their atomic missiles would be astronomically out of proportion to the increase in weight. An observer used to the European pattern of heavy bombardment arrived on Guam and was moved to say: "It is an appalling power we Americans possess...
LeMay found more planes and plenty of gasoline on Guam, Saipan and Tinian. He also found plenty of trouble...