Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auxiliary ships, the House passed and sent tot he Senate a bill giving the Government broad powers to regulate the use of U. S. merchantmen in the current emergency, and Rep. Ed V. Izac, D., Calif., proposed that the U. S. Navy be used to patrol a new "shipping zone" between this country and Ireland...
...aircraft men, although they could use more and better guns, have gone into the jungles, placed and manned what guns they have there, done a heroic job of soldiering. But they, too, have no illusions about last-ditch defense. If ever enemy bombers in sufficient force get over the Zone, and find the few small targets that mean anything, the Canal can be closed; the U.S. Fleet can be divided...
Theoretically outmoded U.S. planes (example: the Douglas B-18A bomber) now make ten-and twelve-hour flights, hop non-stop from Miami or Texas to the Zone. Pan American Clippers do it in six and a half hours. Existing bombers could, if pushed to the extreme, fly from French Dakar to the Canal Zone. Air power has thus completely revised all theories of the defense of the Canal. The only military solution: defensive air and naval power, based as far as possible from the Canal itself, as near as possible to the starting points of enemy attack...
That solution means absolute military superiority not only of the area within the Caribbean ring but of the Latin-American approaches beyond it, the approaches from Africa and Europe as well. That is why Army and Naval officers in the Canal Zone impatiently dismiss queries and quibbles about the Canal's local defenses. The Canal is still a focal point of the Caribbean defense system. But the Canal's defense today is just as good as and no better than the defenses of Trinidad, Puerto Rico and the other outlying U.S. bases...
Home last week from the air war over Britain came one of the many high-ranking U.S. observers who have flitted in & out of the war zone. To reporters Major General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, onetime Chief of Air Corps, now a Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, was mum on military matters (he may have cruised over Occupied France and Germany in a British bomber, as U.S, observers are authorized to do). But his return was signalized by an official announcement that several young U.S. pilots will soon get a chance to see that war. This...