[Milsurplus] TBX on Guam

[Robert Goff]

He definitely was a ham before the war-KB6GJX.  He was interviewed in
QST of March '45.  After the war he came back to Grants Pass, where I
live and opened a TV-Radio Repair shop.  He's kind of the local hero,
there's a street here named after him.

de Robert Goff W7MKA
Grants Pass, Or

> From: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
> To: main at Army-Radios.groups.io, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [Army-Radios] TBX on Guam

>
> 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
>> *To:* milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; main at Army-Radios.groups.io
>> *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