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...Allies might dictate it to get other useful bases: Angola and Mozambique in Africa, the Cape Verde Islands off Dakar. They might even desire Portugal itself for a march into Hitler's Fortress via Spain...
...liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
...What we acquire we must fortify. . . . [In] the Atlantic, we must acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...
Limited. In Camp Stewart, Ga., Private Andrew J. Capariso's commanding officer judged him "limited service material." The C.O. then learned that Capariso had survived 15 months' internment in North Africa, English air raids, shrapnel wounds at Dakar, three torpedoings, 16 days on the Atlantic in an open boat, three days on the Atlantic on a raft with a dead...
...March 1928, a French company, Aeropostale, opened a route from France to Dakar by plane, across the Atlantic by boat to Brazil, by plane via Uruguay to Buenos Aires. One of the great ventures of a business age. the creation of Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, Aéropostale could get an airmail letter from Paris to Argentina and a reply back in less time than U.S. business correspondence could make the one-way trip from New York...