Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These aircraft stations will buttress the reconnaissance and bombing powers of the Pacific Fleet on the long reach south from Pearl Harbor to the Navy's long-neglected station on Samoa. There, in the storied harbor of Pago Pago, workmen are also busy building a first-rate aircraft station, a secondary station for water craft to bridge the long reach between Pearl Harbor and Australian bases...
...Navy is fairly well off with the Pacific defense now building. The radii of its patrol planes overlap from Alaska's Dutch Harbor to Samoa's Pago Pago, from Pearl Harbor to Manila. The Navy can cover the Pacific against any surprise attack. Once its reconnaissance pilots have located the enemy, the job is up to the bombers, and to the Pacific and Asiatic Fleets, which are now spread from Hawaii to Manila in a pattern that no Navy man will reveal...
When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went on to explain, was "the fortification of Singapore, the arrival of Australian troops in Malaya and the impending fortification of Guam and Samoa...
...scare. The Japanese, who had started the scare, were dismayed at the length it had gone. To their protestations of peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...