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...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...
Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...
...fortnight ago a calm, unruffled Tweed, his throat a little scratchy from so much unaccustomed talking, was reunited with his family in California. He had collected back pay amounting to $6,027 and an admiral out in the Pacific had made him a chief on the spot...