Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships (mostly destroyers, submarines for first-line patrol), initial facilities for long-range naval flying boats and both Army and Navy land-based planes. To build and fortify an advanced fleet base would cost at least $200,000,000 (the rock-bottom estimate for doing as much at Guam...
...problem of distances can be judged by the fact that if a map of the U. S. were superimposed on the map overleaf it would just about cover the area shown. Roughly Rangoon would correspond to Seattle, Guam to Boston, Sumatra to Southern California, and Florida to New Guinea. The distance from the Japanese naval base on Hainan to the heart of Borneo approximates the air distance from Fargo, N. Dak. to New Orleans, and the distance from Singapore to Manila that from Salt Lake City to Detroit...
...Rearmament $1,000,000,000. A Senate committee figured that 22 of the Navy's 143 new combat vessels will cost at least $372,750,000. Buried in one of the naval bills which Congress passed last week was authority (but not money) for the Navy to fortify Guam, in Japan's Pacific backyard. Eventual cost: anywhere from $80,000,000 to $200,000,000, depending upon how safe the Navy wants Guam...
...speed construction of naval, air and marine bases (but nothing to fortify Guam, at Japan's doorstep...
However, the U. S. Navy now has building: eight battleships, two aircraft carriers, six light cruisers, 29 destroyers, 14 submarines. Still seeking a Guam base (needed only for war in the Pacific), the Navy last week was certain its naval air force was still the world's best...