Word: balboa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Jarman has a reputation for being one of a rare Army breed: a first-rate Army politician who is also a first-rate soldier. His main job perforce is at his desk in headquarters at Quarry Heights (Balboa), but he gets out often into the field, in rainy season can wade and ride the muddy trails with the toughest...
WILLIAM McNuLTY Balboa...
...busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
Protected by great stretches of blue water, Balboa is the heart of naval defense of the Canal, will need far-flung defenses if an enemy ever gets a foothold on the Pacific side of South America. It may need protection, even before that event, from harassing raids by enemy carriers or by long-range bombers, when factories begin producing raiders like Douglas Aircraft...
...Caribbean villainy had doomed Balboa to sure punishment when by chance he discovered the one thing which could save his neck: a vast ocean for the King of Spain...