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During the war, the U.S. was chiefly concerned in safeguarding two points essential to hemispheric defense: 1) the jutting bulge of Brazil (ten hours by air from the German threat at Dakar); 2) the Panama Canal. With the consent of the interested Governments, bases were constructed in Brazil (Natal, Recife and six other big fields), in Panama (130 temporary bases, spotted around the isthmus), in Ecuador (Salinas, near Guayaquil, and the Galapagos Islands); in northern Peru at Talara, near Standard Oil [N.J.] fields...
Sofar's range is one of its most startling features: a test bomb dropped at Dakar was heard in the Bahamas, 3,100 miles away...
...Dakar, French West Africa, black workers were organized into an all but general strike against pay increases for their white bosses...
...Fourth of July. The ancient cruiser Baía was patrolling the South Atlantic along the route that Allied planes fly from Natal to Dakar. With four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...
...special Cabinet session the General and his Ministers decided to build "a large land, air and naval base" on Africa's Atlantic bulge, at Dakar, which Franklin Roosevelt more than once implied was a U.S. strategic outpost. A few days later the General dropped in at the Institut Géographique, where French Indo-Chinese were celebrating their New Year...