Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cigar-chewing, grey-haired West Pointer Twining is an old footballer, likes to have ex-athletes on his staffs. When he replacedable Curtis LeMay in Guam last week, he said of his new command: "It's like taking over the Notre Dame football team from Knute Rockne...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...small, even for a sandspit, but a 3,300-ft. airstrip was carved out of it. Marine fighter planes moved in to protect the $20 billion worth of ships against Jap raiders. Navy planes were landed there as carrier battle replacements, and a transport-plane shuttle service to Guam and Peleliu was started...
...Superforts took off in a single flight. Two announcements last week gave the Japs even more to worry about: 1) Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force B-29s were due on Okinawa in mid-August; 2) R.A.F. Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd had been in Guam, presumably intent on fulfilling Winston Churchill's promise to send British land-based planes into...