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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides these mainstays, the blueprint calls for a network of secondary bases crisscrossing the Pacific: Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Palaus (all paid for in U.S. blood); eastern Samoa, Wake, Midway (already U.S. possessions) ; Truk and Manus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Pacific Bastions | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...these, only Okinawa, Truk and Manus are suitable for important naval usage. The Jap base at Truk, perhaps the Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Pacific Bastions | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Road to Tokyo. Today hundreds of vessels-boats, warships,' cargo carriers, combat transports-crawl across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tropical Lagoon | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Among other uncensored items at Manus are a farm with 500 chickens, ducks, a technical library, an evening school where navigation, mathematics, mechanics, history, English and foreign languages are taught; baseball fields, basketball and handball courts ; a beer garden and a bandstand. On the brow of a hill overlooking the great installation is a desolate, wilting shack - the only visible reminder of Jap occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tropical Lagoon | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Manus is still growing. Steam shovels and bulldozers are clearing the way for new docks. But, like the other improvised bases in the Pacific, Manus may never be quite finished. Said an admiral: "Our ambition is to leave unfinished bases all the way across the Pacific to Japan." A signpost on Manus reads: "Tokyo, 2,000 miles; Manila, 1,670 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tropical Lagoon | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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