European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V w ships lie in improved Only before Moro cargo than passes through this after we invaded the Marianas in the summer of 1944 we paid for them with thousands of we could not be paid Back for those dead sailors and but we have used what they fought to every Day b20s Roar out of Fields on Saipan or Tinian to bomb the Home islands of Japan and every Day thousands of tons of cargo Are unloaded in newly dredged largest of the with an area of 225 Square has been turned into Advance Headquarters for the it is the nerve and Supply Center for the Pacific the pictures on these made by George yank photog will give you an idea of what the Marianas have turned into this past the change is a Sample of american War when we invaded Guam a year ago it was the Monsoon the Rains had made the few dirt roads almost the beaches were no better than Harbor facilities were but we started the Job of construction As soon As we from then on Seabee worked Day and night to Lay Down roadbed and to build pontoons in the torrential Rains washed out the new roads and a typhoon smashed the but they kept at the Job until it was today there is a four Lane Highway running along Guam West apra which had six million cubic Yards of Coral dredged out of now handles More cargo than any other Forward area port in the in place of one Jap Airfield in poor the Island now has five Large air bases containing eight air strips for transports and cargo on Saipan and Tinian hundreds of Miles of roads and great air strips have been built out of Earth and Coral and the islands have changed in Many other quonset huts have been set up everywhere Power radio Airport Heaters and even cow barns have been pigs and cattle have been imported and hundreds of acres of farm land Are being in addition whole new villages have been built for dislocated our relations with the natives Are Good and Promise to be this year Congress appropriated to repair damages that forces did to civilian areas on Guam when they took it Back from the our Mariana bases Are Well big Shore batteries line the coasts and hundreds of antiaircraft guns Are set at night searchlights can be thrown up to cover the but Jap planes Are no longer a we Are taking Oft from the Marianas to Knock them Down Over their own or on their if they decide not to come