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...impatient man in any weather, almost came to a boil. Chunky General Smith wanted to take his First Brigade of Marines for needed training in the outposts of the Caribbean, where they might later see action. Yet somebody in Washington demurred. Reason: there was no housing for troops near Guantanamo, on the southeast coast of Cuba, where General Smith proposed to set up training headquarters...
When the First Brigade got to Guantanamo, it debarked in a juicy mango swamp near the Navy station. General Smith took one look at underbrush that no man could walk through, began snapping peremptory messages to Washington. Soon building materials and half a dozen bulldozers arrived from the States. The Marines prepared for housekeeping...
...last week seven tons of Duralumin "tractor," driven by a twelve-cylinder automobile engine, chugged into the surf of Guantanamo Bay and set out to sea. Instead of sinking, the Buck Rogersian vehicle paddled to & fro at ten miles an hour, turned, charged the beach and landed a party of U. S. Marines...
Today the Corps is girding itself for what may come. It has its eye particularly peeled for the Caribbean. At Guantanamo Bay, 3,600 officers and men of the Fleet Marine Force last week waited and trained...
...Soon afterward he got a reassuring answer from Petain. At Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy Air Corps. If the problem of Martinique had to be settled, the U. S. was well prepared...