Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even soon the U. S. would have a chain of well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those leased from Britain but those at Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone (see map, p. 21)-Trinidad's development stood high on the list of priorities...
...rate as service stations for naval, air and land forces. Thus Bermuda and Jamaica are to be major service stations (naval and air); Antigua and St. Lucia are to be secondary ones (for air). Three of the links in the chain will be much more than service stations. Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone will be the key positions...
...Department restrictions now forbid Army officers in Puerto Rico to disclose what they have and have not there, what they plan to have for defense on the island. Before these restrictions went into effect last month, Army announcements had already summarized the forces then on the island. At huge, slowly building Borinquen Field on Puerto Rico's northwestern tip, there was one group of about 15 obsolescent medium bombers; at Ponce air base, near the south-central coast, there was an equal number of equally outmoded P36 pursuit planes. Planned and announced but not yet at their stations were...
...training had left its unmistakable mark on the men of the First, and the First had left its mark on the camp site at Guantanamo, as Marines have long marked the remote places on the Caribbean. Last week a U.S. civilian airplane pilot, crossing the water between Puerto Rico and the island of Vieques, looked for the pasture emergency field there. He had no trouble finding it. On the side of a hill his eye caught the red, white & blue of a huge stone U.S. flag alongside the globe & anchor of the Corps emblem. A legend ran across the hill...
Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico "Oh, To Be in England" Sirs: I wonder if you have yet heard the story about the English schoolteacher who was testing the children on English poetry...