PACIFIC AIR BASES
AMERICAN NAVY PLANES
WORKS 01 YEN PR INFERENCE
(Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. August 12, 1.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 11.
The Navy Department has ordered work lo be started on five Pacific Island air bases, with an award of construction contracts totalling approximately £2,921,400. namely at Kaneohe Bay, on Oaku Island, a llect air base at Pearl Harbour and on Midway, Johnston and Palmyra Islands. Congress -authorised 12 bases last session -approximating £13,000,000 for the purpose. The Navy Department announcement indicates that the new Pacific works will be accelerated beyond the others.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 6
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