Word: argentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian...
Newfoundland also is cashing in handsomely on the $200 million building program at the U.S. bases in the province. Fort Pepperrell, near St. John's, the Harmon air base on the southwest coast, and Argentia naval base, near which Churchill and Roosevelt held their Atlantic Charter meeting in 1941, are all being expanded. Much of the money is paid out directly in wages to Newfoundland workmen. Newfoundland also benefits from the free-spending U.S. troops stationed there...