Portland Radio Man Dodges
Japanese On Island Of Guam
Until Return Of Americans
By Frank Tremalne
United Press Correspondent
Pacific Fleet Headauarters.
Pearl Harbor, July 15. (ll.R)
Alter more than two and a half
years of dodging Japanese in
the hills of Guam since that
island fell to the enemy Dec. 11
1941, Chief Radioman George
Kay Tweed, 42, Portland, Ore-
escaped early in July of this
year, it may be revealed today.
(All organized Japanese re
sistance ceased on Guam Wed
nesday, Admiral Chester M.
Nimitz announced Thursday.)
Tweed told correspondents to
day how he escaped from Agana
administrative center of Guam,
under Japanese machine gun
fire after approximately 8,000
enemy troops poured ashore to
overwhelm the tiny American
garrison of 200 marines.
31 Months On Run
He told how he lived 31
months in caves or without shel
ter while the Japanese put a
price on his head and carried
out a series of determined
searches for him.
(Guam is only 30 miles long,
four miles wide at the northern
end, and eight and a half miles
long at the southern end.
Tweed said he had given up
hope of surviving until the
Americans began attacking
Guam in June.
The story of how he finally
escaped from Guam aboard t a
com Dai snip during the saipan
j campaign may not now be fully
told.
Tweed now Is en route to the
United States to see his wife,
Mary Frances, and his children,
Ronald Eugene, 9, and Robert
Edward, 13, for the first time
since October, 1939.
Starting New Life
. "It feels as though I am begin
ning life all over again", said
Tweed.
.He believed his wife is now
with his mother, Mrs. W. H.
Sudderth, Santa Paula, Cal.,
although "it's been so long since
I've seen them I'm not sure
where they are."
Tweed did not reveal many
details of his life on Guam under
the Japanese regime.
He is short and slight. He said
he lost about 20 pounds during
the 31 months he spent on the
island between the Japanese oc
cupation and the American re-
conquest.
Tweed said he experienced
jr brief illness. The most notice
able effect of the ordeal appear
ed to be in his voice. He had
some difficulty in speaking be
cause he had not used his voice
for long periods of time when
he was alone on the Island.
Arrived In 1939
Tweed was assigned to Guam
Aug. 10, 1939, for duty at the
naval station. His tour of duty
had only two months left to run
when war started. In October,
1941, the governor of Guam
evacuated all American women
and children, except one woman
because of the apparent immi
nence of war. Tweed said the
personnel at Guam at that time
felt war was coming soon.
"About S a. m. Dec. 8, 1941
CELT), I was awakened and told
to report to the communications
office because the Japanese had
V bombed Pearl Harbor and Ma
nila. I reported and asked what
to do, but there seemed to be no
organization, no plan for de
fense because there was no de
fense at Guam.
"At 9 a. m." the first Jap
planes came over. They pro
ceeded directly to Sumay and
bombed the Standard Oil tanks
and barracks of civilian work
ers. Sent To Hill
"Lat?r I was sent to a post
on the hill with a portable radio
to maintain communication with
the naval communications office
In town because the telephone
lines had been destroyed.
"While I was there, Japanese
bombers bombed and strafed
the area for an hour and 25
minutes without scoring a bomb
hit on any target. No buildings
were hit and no personnel were
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Tweed said he returned again
to Agana at 2:30 p. m. and found
only one bomb hit in town and
that was on his own house.
"The second day was practi
cally a repetition of the first,
except that the hospital was
machine-gunned and one more
house was bombed. Bombs land
ed in the governor's garden, but
they didn't cause damage.
"Before dark that night, ships
were sighted in the horizon.
They were taken to be Japanese
landing forces, but that infor
mation was not spread widely,
I knew nothing about it.
"I stayed at the communica
tions office until nearly mid
night, and then went home to
bed. I had pulled my bed into
the rear of the house under what
was left of the roof."
Land At Midnight
Tweed said the Japs made
their first landing about mid
night but he was not awakened
until 2 a. m. when he heard
machine gun and rifle fire.
"I was so sleepy I was in a
fog and didn't realize what it
was. Somehow I got the impres
sion the marines were practic
ing. I swore a while and then
went back to sleep.
"But two hours later the Japs
brought in field artillery. That
brought me up."
Tweed dressed immediately
and went to the communications
office. There he found only a
handful of marines, plus a few
hundred members of the native
and insular force available to
oppose 8,000 Japanese.
But he reported that 50 ma
rines, stationed on Cabras island
at the mouth of Apra harbor,
actually repulsed the Japanese
until their ammunition was ex
hausted and they were forced
to surrender.
He said the marines refused
to give up to the Japs even
though one of their few machine
guns which during the two-day
pre-invasion aerial bombard
ment had helped keep the at
tacking planes a little higher
had been knocked out.
Marines Captured
"I don't know how many
marines were killed but I know
that quite a number were taken
prisoner. When the Japs reach
ed the center of Agana, they
set fire to a house to provide
illumination. Then they set up
field guns and shelled the gov
ernment house at point-blank
range.
'I had gone to government
house. There I learned the island
was to be surrendered.
"So I decided to go into the
bush, because I expected the
Americans to come back and
take the place away from the
Japs."
Tweed said he and another
radiomen took his car for the
getaway. Shortly after they left
his house they made a right turn
onto a road ascending a hill out
side town, but the Japanese had
set up a machine gun on the left
side of the turn.
"As we turned onto the road,
the Japs opened fire. Bullets
whistled all around the car, but
we got away. We went about 11
miles southeast of town to the
other side of the island where
we ran the car off the road and
hid In the bushes.
"We looked for a place to
hide.
Fugitives Separate
'Two months later the other
radioman left me and proceeded
off by himself. Later he was
killed.
"Americans who were taken
prisoner were held at Guam for
30 days. The Japs announced
during that time that any Amer
ican in the bushes who voluntar
ily surrendered merely would
be placed with the other pris
oners.
"At the end of the 30 days
they were taken to Japan. Then
the Japs announced that any
Americans who left the bush
would be killed.
Two months after the war
started, Tweed said, two Ameri
cans were caught and killed. Six
weeks later, two more were
slain.
The Japs were searching for
me frantically. After the first
year I gave up hope. I prayed
all the time, but I felt that
sooner or later I would be
caught. But I was determined
to do my utmost to postpone
that day as long as possible.
"Several times the Japs
learned where I was hiding, but
each time I managed to escape
once by less than a minute.
"They permanently detached
a 50-man search party which
hunted almost two years for me.
Lilted At Dead
"The Japs officially pronounc
ed me dead April 1944."
Sometimes he hid in caves or
took other shelter when it was
available. But sometimes he was
forced to sleep on the ground.
"When the Americans made
their first bombing raid on
Guam, I was highly elated. I
knew I hadn't much longer to
wait."
He said he eagerly watched
succeeding raids from good van
tage points. He said he "figured"
there had been a landing on Sai
pan when United States planes
started coming in from the north
instead of the southeast, indicat
ing that the fleet was operating
around Saipan, 111 miles to the
north. j
He also saw Japanese bomb-!
ers, heavily loaded, take off !
northward. One day he waved ;
at a flier in what he thought
was an Aircobra fighter (it re-;
sambled the picture of one in
an old copy of a magazine) al
though it actually was another
type of U. S. fighter.
Escape Details Veiled
The pilot apparently realized
that the shirtless figure below
was a white man. He blinked his
landing lights. 1
This was all that Tweed,could
tell about his actual escape:
"I made my escape to a Unit
ed States vessel off the coast."
As soon as he arrived aboard
the warship, he was taken to the
wardroom for food.
"The first thing I reached for
was a piece of bread and butter.
I had dreamed about it for two
years."
Santa Paula, Cal., Aug. 11.
(U.PJ When George Ray Tweed, :
42, who escaped from Guam i
after eluding the Japanese for
two and a half years, arrived ;
home, she didn't recognize him
his mother-in-law Mrs. W. H.
Sudderth said today.
Mrs. Sudderth said Tweed
knocked at the door one evening
about two weeks ago.
"I looked at him but I hardly
knew him he was so .thin and
he was almost gray-haired," she
said.
Democratic Nominee
Up For Speech Has
"Nothing to Unload"
Omaha. Neb., Aug. 11 (U.R)
George W. Olsen, Plattsmouth.
democratic nominee for gover
nor, appeared before the state
convention last night and said:
"Fellow democrats.
"I feel just like I did when I
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and so were the apples. There
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"I feel the same way here to
night. "Thank you for what you are
still going to do for me. Good
bye." a
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