Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staff is his deputy, who acts as adjutant between the Chief and the rest of the staff and bosses the show when the Chief is away. In the past 14 months, he has made six circuits of the continental U. S., side trips (mostly by air) to Hawaii, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and his deputy, balding 60-year-old Brigadier General William Bryden, has had plenty to do. Crack Artilleryman Bryden commanded artillery brigades in 1917-18, is the only member of the staff who was a general officer in World War I. When George Marshall called...
...following pages TIME presents a map of the most important strategic area in the Western Hemisphere: the approaches to the Panama Canal...
When a friendly and unthreatened British Fleet policed the Atlantic and made the Monroe Doctrine a working document, defense of the Panama Canal was a textbook subject. The only possible attack was from Japan in the Pacific, and Japan's No. 3 world Navy had to operate from too far away. Its long supply lines could be cut at will, even by an inferior Navy, from the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and, if the Japanese got past the great ocean fortress of Hawaii, by flanking attacks from the U. S. Pacific Coast...
...Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...poll question was: "If Germany defeats England, should the U. S. take immediate possession of the English, French and Dutch territories in the area of the Panama Canal?" The answers...