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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...
...believe it in the public interest to avail myself of this opportunity to state my views thereon ... Prior [to the past war] the Western strategic frontier of the U.S. lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway and Guam to the Philippines. That salient was not an outpost of strength, but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack...
...Jolson, 62, indefatigable entertainer of troops in World War II, asked the Government to send him to Korea, scoffed at the prospective discomforts: "I been to Guam. You got to sleep high on Guam or the rats will bite you. But hell, I'm used to that around here...
...officer who fought with Craig on Guam relates: "After I ran ashore, the bullets were raining in from several pillboxes, so I dived into the nearest foxhole. Who in hell was in there but Eddie Craig. He was lying there with a phone and a notebook, talking to a runner. He was so quiet and collected he could have been at a desk in the Pentagon. 'We got to get those damn pillboxes!' I yelled at him. 'Now sit down there a minute,' Craig says, 'we'll get to 'em.' He just...
...military tyrant. Like many another Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although the roof leaked in Craig's hut, he refused to detail carpenters to repair it until they had finished work on the enlisted men's recreation club (with six bowling alleys...