Word: guam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a series of courses in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., Pilot Seamon was assigned to a photo-mapping outfit. At the controls of a PB4Y-I, he and his crew dodged flack and fought off enemy fighters to make a map for the invasion of Guam...
...gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
...July 4, 1959 rolled westward from the international dateline, U.S. outposts, embassies and ships at sea broke out the nation's new 49-star flag, signaling Alaska's entrance into the Union. On Guam the 809 Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, claimed the honor of raising the first 49-star flag in the world-a claim sure to be hotly contested. At 12:01 a.m. E.D.T., the first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered...
...waste and extravagance and quit piling up the debt." What the U.S. needed was a "new Calvin Coolidge." As international crisis drew the U.S. closer to World War II, Charlie Halleck took his place in the front ranks of isolationism. He voted against Lend-Lease, against the fortification of Guam, against Selective Service. "Enemy ships would have to come...
...Atlantic, while assistants covered the fighting at Kwajalein and Eniwetok. Returning to the Pacific to observe the "breaking of the Bismarcks barrier," he sent an assistant to the Mediterranean to report on the landing at Anzio. Still in the spring of '44, Morison took part in the Saipan and Guam landings, as an assistant was on hand for D-Day. Another assistant observed the action in Leyte Gulf...