Word: olongapo
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...Luzon is not only the Philippines' capital, but their only Navy Yard (at Cavite), their only naval repair station (Olongapo), most of their fortifications and military airdromes. So long as Manila is in U. S. hands, no Japanese drive to the south could safely by-pass the islands. Hence the U. S. Army has centred its defenses about Manila. Here the defenders of the Philippines would make their last stand against an invasion. Most officers think they could hold on until help came from Honolulu...
...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...