Guam (CB 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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dedication e if To THE PEIIPLE e 014' GUAM 'These are real Americans. There never were any Quislings on Guamf' ' QUENTIN REYNIILDS ,W f.7FQC fm 0 H, fjv' fgl I, YQ 1' . 'vga U f HJ

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C foreword i Korea November 17, 1945 MY DEAR SHIPMATE: Here is your book! Here is the story of your ship during fourteen hectic months of her history. From the crack of the bottle over her bow down to the occupation of Korea you willfind the story within these pages. Rare is the book that does not have criticism, just or unjust. This will not be an exception. It has its faults but I beg of your charity to be kind in your judgments. It was compiled under dwiculties too numerous to mention-and if there be cause for faulqfinding with the completed work there can be nothing but praise for the men who worked so hard and long to make its publication possible. Within these pages you will find the threads of two thousand diferent stories, for each ojficer and man will recall, as he thumbs the pages, his own secret, individual experience and recollection. The threads of a tapestry are here-weave them as you will. In all justice, credit for this book must go to the following ofhcers and enlisted men, first and foremost to Lester LaBove, Y3c, USNR, who labored far into many a night on cutting, editing, research and typing, to Lieutenant Commander E. E. Rogers, USNR, who tirelessly gathered picture material, names and dates, titles and subtitles, to Lieutenant J. B. Kubish, USNR, and Lieutenant R. G. Collier, USNR, for handling so well the thankless job of business managers, to F. N. Fuller, Enlisted News Correspondent, for his text and choice bits of writing throughout the book, to Chief Photographefs lllate A. L. Labendz, USN , for his constantly cheerful and ever ejicient work of photographing, printing and developingg to these men primarily and to others in a lesser degree must go the thanks for this volume. To the GUAM and her 0fjllC9TS and men who fought in a long and arduous cam- paign-and may Cod keep you always in the hollow of His hand. WALTER A. NIAHLER Commander, ChC, USN Editor