Guam is located a little more than half way between San Francisco
and Saigon. It is in the middle of a very large body of water, the Pacific
Ocean. Part of the Mariana Islands Group it is a territory of the
United States of America.
It has a population of 133,000 and an area of 209 square miles. The only
large businesses are tourism and naval and air force base support. During
the VIETNAM war Andersen AFB was one of the busyiest bomber bases in the
world.When troops left California they may well have flown over Guam on
their way to a war in VIETNAM they did not
understand and never knew or cared that Guam was there.
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