Notable Interments
- Lieutenant George Ray Tweed, of the United States Navy. He was the only survivor of a unit that was captured on Guam during World War II. He hid on the island for two and a half years, evading capture and supplying information to the US forces in the Pacific. His ordeal inspired him to write the book Robinson Crusoe, USN in 1945, and later, in 1962, inspired, Richard Goldstone and John Monks Jr. to write, direct, and produce the movie No Man Is an Island, starring Jeffrey Hunter as Lt. Tweed.
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