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...Guam to Iceland. Smith, known variously as "O.P." and "The Professor," took a long time to get to his first battlefield-through no fault or desire of his own. He spent World War I in frustration and boredom on the island of Guam. On Dec. 7, 1941 he was in Iceland. It was not until the Cape Gloucester operation in March 1944 that Smith, by then a greying colonel, got his first taste of combat and a Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams...
...Love with the Boss. Unlike the Caine, the destroyer-minesweeper Zane, to which Wouk was assigned, swept mines aplenty-off the Marshalls, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, the Marianas, Guam, Saipan, Tinian. In two years Wouk was successively assistant communications officer, communications officer, ship's first lieutenant and navigator. Later he was reassigned to another minesweeper, the Southard, saw action in six Pacific campaigns. He rose to executive officer, had been recommended to become captain of his ship when it was wrecked in a typhoon at Okinawa...
Died. Willis W. Bradley, 70, retired U.S. Navy captain, onetime (1929-31) governor of Guam and Republican Congressman from California (1947-49), winner of the Medal of Honor in 1917 for heroism during an ammunition explosion aboard the cruiser Pittsburgh (he rescued a sailor, then put out a fire that had almost reached other explosives); of a heart ailment; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Navy changed its mind, moved the 58-year-old battleship to Apra Harbor, Guam, where, towards the end of the Pacific war, she did duty as a breakwater and ammunition ship. Shorn of superstructure and stricken from the Navy's active list, she still lies in Guam awaiting further orders...
...vastly expanded" radar and microwave warning system, to alert Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Guam and other outposts in the Pacific, as well as the U.S., against a sneak attack by the Communists. "Regardless of the expense," said the governors, "we feel that this must be done so that there will be no future Pearl Harbors...