Word: guantanamo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June, abuilding at Akron expressly for military use, the Navy wanted to have the Los Angeles scout experimentally with the fleet. For this, the express permission of Great Britain, France and Japan was necessary. Last week, permission granted, orders were posted for the Los Angeles to proceed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thence for Panama, to join the Navy's winter maneuvers...
...positive side Mr. Hoover ordered the U. S. S. Pensacola, potent and up-to-date cruiser of 10,000 tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
Should U. S. refugees have to be evacuated from Rio de Janeiro it would take the Pensacola steaming at her terrific cruiser speed of 33 knots four days to reach them from Guantanamo...
...from the monster carriers Lexington and Saratoga,. How many ships were sunk, which side won the engagement could only be told by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, once the Navy Department's sharp critic (TIME, July 22), but on this occasion its official umpire. The fleets steamed to Guantanamo Bay for a postmortem discussion of their fight...
TIME, of Feb. 17, 1930, under Army and Navy, gives 100,000 as the number of members of the Navy participating in this year's joint maneuvers off Guantanamo Bay, "well out of public observation." Fifty thousand would be nearly correct...