Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunted. The two of them settled down in the hills to wait for the Navy to return for them-in two or three months, they figured. Tweed's companion wandered off. He got caught by the Japs, and was decapitated. Four other Americans had taken to the hills in defiance of a Jap order-surrender or be executed when caught. They were caught. Tweed stuck...
...pair of shoes out of the hide of a deer he killed. He sickened once after a meal of wild fruit. But he fared pretty well most of the time. " I guess the mountain air agreed with me," said Tweed...
...made a crude calendar, carefully accounting for the days, calculating and recording the changes of the moon. "It was pretty important for me to know when the moon would be full and the nights would be dark," Tweed said reflectively, recalling how he had lived the animal life of the hunted. Not until the Jap Navy garrison declared Tweed dead (in order not to lose face with a Jap Army garrison that followed it), did the search for him cease...
Sailor's Reward. On June 11, 1944, Tweed's hopes suddenly soared. He saw Navy planes in numbers flying over Guam. Bombs rained down. Tweed happily hugged the earth while bombs exploded. "They were a long time coming but they're here at last," he thought...
...right. The raid was a phase of the Navy attack on nearby Saipan. The bombers appeared often after that. Hysterical Japs began cutting off the heads of natives who even looked at the sky. Then one day at last Tweed saw what he had been waiting for two and a half years-the lean, grey ships of the U.S. Navy...