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Old December 20th 05, 03:06 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy
 
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Default Reasonable and unique, was One Class of Amateur Radio License?


KØHB wrote:
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There's also the story of "The Ghost of Guam".


The "Ghost of Guam" was US Navy Radioman 1st Class George Tweed. He wasn't a
ham. Was reputed to be laid up drunk in a house of horizontal refreshment when
the Navy evacuated the island just ahead of the WW-II JA invasion so he missed
his ride. Had to hide out in the jungle for a few years until the USN came
back. In the book/movie "No Man is an Island" he comes off as a hero, but was
in fact not popular with the locals, several of whom (including a native RC
Priest) lost their lives for not revealing his whereabouts. After the war he
skedaddled without so much as a thank-you.

73, de Hans, K0HB


But Jim knows him and knows him as a ham. Jim is, after all, the final
authority on military and ham history.

 
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