Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within three months there should be enough bases to accommodate all the air units that can be sent from Europe. Okinawa, four times the size of Guam, promises to be a fine base, even better than preliminary U.S. appraisals indicated. Within six months the Philippines should be in shape to take all the ground forces which can be redeployed in that time for the invasion of the Jap heartland...
Rockefeller Jr., lost his individualistic Army-grown mustache when it was badly singed by flash burns in a Jap air attack off Okinawa. In a hospital on Guam with hand and face burns that will leave no scars, he pronounced himself "very lucky...
...story of George Ray Tweed, the Navy radioman, who spent two and a half years on Jap-held Guam (TIME, Aug. 21) is as packed with adventure, suspense and endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...
Good Man Friday. A stolen gasoline generator was rigged to provide current for a light bulb and another salvaged radio. With the aid of a battered but usable typewriter, Tweed even began publication of a newspaper, the Guam Eagle, (for a circulation of five loyal Chamorros.) "My cave became a rendezvous. It was growing more comfortable all the time. ... In exchange for world news supplied by the radio and the Guam Eagle, I received a steady flow of supplies and local intelligence from a few friends." All this had to be abandoned hastily when Tweed discovered that the Chamorro...
...Never Give Up." Sick and discouraged at such sacrifices, Tweed was about to surrender (to certain death, as he learned later) when a native schoolteacher, married to an American, dissuaded him. "Never give up," she said, "no matter what happens. . . . The people of Guam feel that as long as you hold out the Americans will come back. If you surrender, they will believe you have lost your faith and think the Japs have...