{"id":15,"date":"2014-05-30T10:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:39:27","slug":"20140528-wednesday-south-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"2014\/05\/28 — Wednesday — South Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

We fell into bed just after midnight and got up this morning at about 9am.\u00a0 With only a brief wake-up (from jet lag?) about 3:30am.<\/p>\n

We had a picnic lunch with Kathy, who took us on a tour of the southern part of the island of Guam between Santa Rita, where she lives, to the TWR transmitting site at Merizo.<\/p>\n

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One of the more obvious Japanese pillboxes on Agat Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

We saw Agat landing beach where American troops fought Japanese who were dug into caves along the coast.<\/p>\n

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Well hidden Japanese caves on Agat Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

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Japanese heavy weapons that the American forces faced as they landed on Agate Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

We passed the SDA transmitting site with its array of several shortwave towers.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking down from Fort Soledad at the village of Umatac and the bay in which Magellan harbored<\/p><\/div>\n

We also visited a bay in which Magellan harbored at Umatac village, then the Spanish Fort Nuestra Senora de la Soledad.<\/p>\n

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The ruins of Fort Neustra Senora de la Soledad<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cannons<\/a>

Cannons at Fort Soledad<\/p><\/div>\n

Our last stop to the south was TWR’s transmitting site with its five shortwave transmitters — two Harris 100,000-watt transmitters built and installed in the 1970s, one HC100 100,000-watt transmitter that we built in Elkhart in the 1990s, and two recently installed Thomson 250,000-watt transmitters.<\/p>\n

We got home just in time for the Gregsons to take us out to dinner at the Lemon Grass Thai restaurant in Santa Rita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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