Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They're On the Fire. Still cursed with as tough luck as they had faced ever since the Jap attacked Pearl Harbor were the estimated 2,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines taken off Guam, Wake Island and from China ports, the 40,000 U.S. fighting men previously captured in the Philippines, and the 10,000 who were captured on Corregidor last week...
Letters to prisoners of war will be handled postage-free. They should list, after the recipient's name, his military title and branch of service, "formerly of" (Shanghai, Manila, Wake, Guam, etc.), and the identifying phrase: "American Prisoner in Japan, c/o International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland." In the space for postage stamps should be written, "Prisoner of War Mail, Postage Free." Similar procedure is followed with mail for interned civilians but, pending appropriate regulations, full postage will be required...
...lived in the U.S. and worked against it, but his image was even mistier than the forms of the white men of Europe. Even after he had smashed at Pearl Harbor, his true form did not emerge. Americans did not yet believe what Pearl Harbor and Wake and Guam told them. They did not believe it because these first reverses of the war had a newsreel quality of unreality...
...fate of 366 Americans captured at Gilbert, Wake and Guam Islands was reported in a cable received last week by the U.S. Navy Department. It came from a Swiss International Red Cross agent, long resident in Japan...
...wire and a wooden fence. Two Army barracks, two stories high, well ventilated, 12,000 cubic meters in all. Capacity 500; present number 374. One Englishman from Shanghai, two Dutchmen, five Australians and rest Americans, of whom eight are from Gilbert Islands, 20 from Wake and the rest from Guam. Forty-five officers, ten doctors, two druggists, one dentist...