Word: guam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...
...wait in California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
After graduation Smith clerked for a year with Standard Oil, dropped the job in a flash when he read in a newspaper that the Marines were commissioning men with university military training such as his. He got his 2nd lieutenancy in May 1917 and was sent to Guam. Esther King sailed out there and married him. After the war he was transferred to the Marine base at Mare Island...
PAULINE MELLON Guam...
Frontier Question. In Radford's command is the Navy's far-flung string of Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base...