Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrived at Guam, or Tinian or Saipan, U.S. aircraft land on airfields such as the Japanese could not even conceive, much less construct, while they were there...
Maps Outdated. For security reasons, the extent and nature of the harbor installations at Guam can be indicated only in the broadest terms. This much can be said: the Japanese left Port Apra much as they found it, with berths for only half a dozen oceangoing ships at most. Six months after the marines landed on either side of it, Port Apra was swallowed up in a harbor development unrivaled in the Pacific. The old charts are worse than useless today; even the topographic maps must be changed, for an island has been leveled to provide fill...
...Harbor, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. set up War Insurance Corp., which insured, free of charge, all property in the U.S. and its possessions from war damage. So far it has paid out $327,000 (for losses in Hawaii, the Aleutians, etc.) but it has still to pay losses on Guam (perhaps four or five million) and in the Philippines. Since liberation the Philippines have filed claims for $115,000,000, probably less than half of the final amount...
Bombing Japan from the Marianas, near their extreme round-trip range (3,600 miles), the Superfortresses now have a handy way station-Iwo Jima-on which to land when they are lamed in combat or too short of fuel to make it back to Guam, Saipan or Tinian. Fighter escort from Iwo has also helped to cut losses. Result: the Jap airfields on Kyushu have taken a persistent beating, and enemy fighter production has been cut 50%. In April, the B-295 unloaded 30,000 tons of bombs-as much as in the ten preceding months-but U.S. losses dropped...
Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was found to have failed on one job: he did not instill his own qualities of cool calm-under-fire into his grey schnauzer pup, Mak-who heard Guam antiaircraft batteries open up in practice firing near the beach where the Admiral was swimming, took to the hills, was listed as missing...