Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall, Hawaii was the best-equipped base the U.S. had. Said he: "As to Hawaii . . . it had the maximum of materiel that we possessed. ... As to Panama: if the Hawaiian state of preparation in men and materiel was 100, Panama was about 25% and the Philippines about 10% and Alaska and the Aleutians completely negligible...
...east and central Pacific depended. If the Japanese had returned the next day with three divisions of assault troops, supported by air groups from all their carriers (about ten) and gunfire from all their battleships (ten or twelve) they might well have captured Oahu, keystone in the Alaska-Hawaii-Panama defense arch. If so, they would have won that war; the U.S. would have had to start all over...
...personnel will be out of northern Canada by winter. Under the terms of an Ottawa-Washington agreement, the bases which cost the U.S. $90,000,000 (including the cost of the "Northwest Staging Route" to Alaska) become the property of Canada...
...three brothers died in uniform. Flyer Quentin was killed in World War I; Major Kermit died in Alaska in 1943; Brig. General Theodore Jr., in Normandy...
...Founded (1794) by eight missionary priests from St. Petersburg, on Kodiak Island off Alaska...