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Last week the changeover was in full swing. Marine air groups at Tsingtao, Guam and Ewa (outside Pearl Harbor) had been pulled back to the mainland; naval air headquarters was moving to San Diego and closing down four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion...
Newsmen whipped themselves up into a froth of excitement when it was announced that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal would arrive. The day before, in Washington, Forrestal had announced that he was sending 1,250 marines from Guam to Tsingtao to reinforce 4,850 marines already in China and help in the evacuation of Americans. For the moment it looked as if something might be cooking on U.S. policy in the Far East...
...flights he keeps a sharp eye out for new business; so do his pilots. One recently took off with a load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo of meat for Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn., his starting point, with airplane parts. Transocean got its first big contract-ferrying 7,000 British immigrants to Canada (TIME, April 19)-when one of its navigators in Rome heard about the need...
Cord Meyer Jr., 27, is a pale young man with a preoccupied smile and wavy brown hair. His paleness and his preoccupation are the marks of war: he was very nearly killed on Guam. He lost an eye and had his face shattered when a Jap grenade exploded in his foxhole.* Since his discharge from the Marines, Cord Meyer has been a young man on a crusade. He is the president of United World Federalists, which seeks to save the world through a limited federation before an atomic war destroys...
...must have added Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wake...