[Milsurplus] [Army-Radios] TBX on Guam

[David Olean]

I read the book online about George Tweed.  I looked him up afterward 
and it looks like he was a ham. He had a W6  call. There were passages 
in his book that sure convinced me that he was a ham.

This Navy video is pretty neat. Quite the morale booster.

K1WHS

On 2/15/2021 12:18 PM, Garret wrote:
>
> Thanks for sending Hue.  Having done several living history exhibits 
> with the TBX, it’s always interesting to see and learn more about the 
> history of these radios, and especially such an amazing story.  I knew 
> vaguely of Tweed’s story, but had no idea there was a TBX involved.
>
> Garret
>
> W8BUG
>
> *From:* main at Army-Radios.groups.io [mailto:main at Army-Radios.groups.io] 
> *On Behalf Of *Hue Miller
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:45 AM
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> *Subject:* [Army-Radios] TBX on Guam
>
> This photo is from a Navy 1944 film on the recapture of Guam,
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAU4QcVE2eg 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAU4QcVE2eg>
>
> Looks like a TBX to me.
>
> The film shows the rescue of George Tweed, "Ghost of Guam", who hid 
> out on the
>
> Japanese occupied island for 31 months. The film doesn't look like a 
> reenactment,
>
> but it had to have been, as I can't imagine the destroyer had ready a 
> camera to film
>
> Tweed signaling from shore and then swimming to the small boat sent to 
> fetch him.
>
> Well done. Tweed is a natural actor and speaks well in scene from last 
> of movie. His
>
> story also in the book, "Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N." A radioman in the 
> Navy, Tweed
>
> postwar became a radio – TV repair person and died in a car accident 
> in this state,
>
> Oregon.
>
> -Hue Miller
>
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