Return to Guam

Return to Guam was a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts with a ship convoy nearing the island sees strange lights flashing from the island in the Morse code "information". After cautiously investigating the signal, they find that it was made by a white man, George Tweed, the last survivor of the original garrison at Guam. Tweed relates his harrowing story of how he survived in the bush for 31 months with the help of the natives, Chamorros. The narrator then tells the audience that the island of Guam means much to the people of America, none more so than the Chamorros sailors on the convoy. The film, through the voice of a chammoro, relates how good...