Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiring of C and K rations, a private first class on Guam bagged a brace of chickens, was on his way to the mess when he was intercepted by the chaplain...
...first cucumbers from a new U.S. truck farm in the Pacific. But by last week U.S. soldiers and bluejackets were harvesting more fresh vegetables than they could eat, sending the ample surplus to their fighting comrades. First of its kind in the Central Pacific, the Guam garden is part of an expanding system of island farms (already 5,000 acres) which are producing every month more than 2,000 tons of tomatoes, cabbages, peppers, corn and other truck for the armed forces...
...recaptured Guam, Dr. Ramon Sablan, a keen-faced, 42-year-old native Chamorro, last week was elbow-deep again in his remarkable career. He serves as health officer and sole civilian doctor for the island's 20,000 natives. His head quarters are two thatch-roofed hospitals where he and a dozen nurses, locally-trained, treat the usual spate of tropical diseases and Guam's chief scourges, tuberculosis and trachoma (an eye infection...
From then on, he was official physician for Pan American Airways, examiner for a U.S. life-insurance company, a civic leader in Agana, Guam's largest town. When the Government ordered all U.S. families home, A.P.'s Guam correspondent, pretty Mrs. Dorothy Trady Perry, had to go. Dr. Sablan took over her job, filed the news faithfully until the Japs came...
...Sablan's wife and little daughter got out in time, arrived in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 1941. Mrs. Sablan got a job in an aircraft factory in Louisville (her husband hopes that he can go there for a vacation when things quiet down). Back in Guam, Dr. Sablan took to the hills with most of the population. Of those who stayed in the towns, some were mistreated by the Japs and fled to him for treatment...