[Milsurplus] TBX on Guam

[Richard Solomon]

There's a bunch of copies on e-Bay.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:29 PM Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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