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WILLIAM McNuLTY Balboa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Back-Door Bases | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Back-Door Bases | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jack Pots | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...field is a good base for Navy or Army aircraft. It has no dry docks or major repair facilities. Disabled first-line battleships would have to go north to Norfolk or Philadelphia or pass through the Canal to Balboa for dry-dock repairs. In an emergency the Canal's locks could be used as dry docks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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