George Tweed; War Hero Hid on Guam for 3 Years

George Tweed, 84, who hid from Japanese forces occupying Guam during World War II for nearly three years and emerged to find himself a hero. His efforts to avoid capture with the help of many Guamanians who were tortured and killed for their assistance became the subject of the 1962 movie, “No Man Is an Island.” Tweed, a Navy radioman during the war who later owned a television repair business in Grants Pass, Ore., for about 40 years, said the film was mostly fiction but was based on fact. Near Crescent City, Calif., on Monday in a traffic accident.