Word: canals
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Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...
...Republic was bound from Hawaii to the eastern U. S., via San Francisco and the Panama Canal. Aboard were 1,800 enlisted men, 750 officers, wives and children. One day out of San Francisco, nine days from the Canal, Master-At-Arms Henry F. Dodd sniffed "a strange odor." He followed his nose four decks down, found a 12 -by-18-inch package. In it were two electrical coils, a time mechanism, two quarts of nitroglycerin. Overboard went the dismembered bomb. Henry Dodd said it was timed to go off well out in the Pacific, would have killed all hands...
...General Marshall and the Army guard in the Canal Zone well knew, the next one might be timed to block the Canal...
...Navy was reorganized in 1934 by retired British officers, now is advised by a U. S. mission, as is the Army. The Navy consists of two new destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent home after Italy entered the war last summer. The U. S. now has an aviation...
...Orbit. As far south as Ecuador, Hemisphere defense rests chiefly on U. S. shoulders, since both the Caribbean and the Panama Canal are vital to the defense of the continental U. S. Below Ecuador lie countries which have hitherto been out of the active U. S. defense orbit. Peru has an Army of 12,000 men, about 8,000 police and civil guards. The Army was trained by German General Wilhelm Faupel, is highly efficient. The Peruvian Air Force, Italian-trained, has some 80 ships, in poor condition. The Navy has a personnel of 2,500 men aboard two gunboats...