Word: guam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval attack force commander, I am proud to have landed and supported General Shepherd and his 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the recapture of Guam, and his 6th Marine Division in the assault and capture of Okinawa. So from intimate knowledge I congratulate TIME on its magnificent tribute to the fighting United States Marines and one of their greatest fighting generals...
...packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around. At 8:01 p.m., just three days after his arrival, Ike's planes took off for Guam...
...high command as the Marines fought their way up the Central Pacific amid the deadly crash of island war: Tarawa. Saipan, Iwo Jima, Peleliu. Shepherd whipped the 9th Marine Regiment into combat shape, went ashore at Cape Gloucester as assistant commander of the famed First Division. He invaded Guam at the head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines at Tsingtao. He was chief of Fleet Marine...
...disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails. It built the $8.000,000 Peking Union Medical College ("We must create the Johns Hopkins of China!" cried one trustee), studied scarlet fever in Rumania, malaria in Nicaragua, undulant fever in France, oroya fever in Peru, dengue fever on Guam. It set up a yellow fever commission under General W. C. Gorgas, and one of its doctors-Wilbur A. Sawyer-eventually found an effective vaccine...
Public anxiety was aroused, he explained, because of recent scare stories abouta giant Pacific small, introduced by the Japanese into Guam and Saipan for food purposes during the war. The Pacific snails multiplied like rabbits but their danger to crops has been over-rated, Clench said...