Word: guantanamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the Williamsburg, almost everybody in the President's party was seeing green without looking at the sea. But Harry Truman" did pretty well. When he went ashore a few hours later at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, in Cuba, he alone looked fit. Said the President: "I stood up all right for the simple reason that I didn't get up. I stayed...
...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
Caribbean ports from Colon to Guantanamo Bay will play host to Harvard Naval ROTC students on their cruise this summer, when at least 39 men will accompany naval task forces on trips of varying lengths in the West Indies...
After a week's layover in the Canal Zone, the force will move east to the islands. Port of Spain, Trinidad, and San Juan will be visited by the group for three days each, before a week of gunnery practice at the Guantanamo, Cuba, Naval Base. Hamilton, Bermuda, and New York City are the last stops...
...Besides its big naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S., by terms of the overage destroyer deal, has a 99-year right to use six island bases in the British West Indies and Atkinson Field in British Guiana...