[Milsurplus] TBX on Guam

[Mark K3MSB]

They made a 1962 movie about George Tweed..." No Man Is An Island ".

Haven't seen it available for a long time.

73 Mark K3MSB


On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:53 PM Robert Goff <robert.h.goff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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