Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters on Guam which his forces had just recaptured, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz gave an idea of the method to be used. It will be continuous blows of Nimitz' mighty Central Pacific forces -two complete teams: the Third Fleet under Admiral Halsey, with the Third Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Conolly and the III Amphibious Corps under Major General Geiger; the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Spruance, with the Fifth Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Hill and the V Amphibious Corps under Major General Schmidt...
Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...
Killed In Action. Marine Corps Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, 23, son of Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Salton stall; while leading a patrol in the jungles of northern Guam. Peter raised his father's share of his Marine Corps pay from $25 to $50 last year. The day after he got the news of Peter's death, Governor Salton stall spoke at a Boston memorial service for Marine Aviator Lieut. Robert M. Hanson, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Announced only last week was the death of Peter B. Saltonstall '43, son of Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Board of Overseers. He was killed in action on Guam, August 13. A bulletin of last Tuesday told of the death of Donald W. Richards '45, who, at 18, was the star of the Harvard football team and a three letter man. He was killed in France on August...
Nevertheless Tweed was mightily pleased to learn later that he had passed the examination which he had taken before the Japs came to Guam. It was a reward, after 20 years in the Navy...