Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these strikes, 300 Superforts flew from Saipan, Tinian and (for the first time) from Guam. Each carried seven to eight tons of 500-lb. clusters of new M69 incendiary bombs. Each cluster comprised scores of 6-lb. incendiary bombs containing a jelly-gasoline compound. The total: about 700,000 incendiaries...
Brigadier General Thomas S. Power, leader of the wing flying from Guam, stayed over the target 90 minutes, making red crosses on a map to show blocks where fires broke out. He wore his red crayon down. A favorable wind spread the flames to cover 15 square miles...
Today A.T.C. is doing much of the transport work with Army crews. But 70-odd crews from United Airlines were still on the job last week, most of them making the fast A.T.C. run to Guam...
Just 17½ hours after the Marines landed on Iwo, the first invasion shots reached the U.S. They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...
...another notable step toward bringing the Navy's public relations up to its fighting arm's high standards. As short a time ago as the Saipan and Guam invasions, all on-the-spot reporting had to trickle back by courier to Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better...