U.S. NAVAL, AIR BASES IN ALASKA
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 12. Mr Hector C. Bywater, the “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent, reveals that, without previous announcement, the United States established a naval and air base at Sitka Harbour, Alaska. Hangars and workshops are already up, and 12 twin-engined bombers have arrived. Others will follow shortly. Dutch Harbour is already being used as a subsidiary naval and air base, and plans are being made to establish large bases in the Aleutians, the intention being to construct one or more “strategic bridges” across the Pacific, enabling the United States to concentrate powerful naval and air forces in the Far East, should it become expedient to do so. The plan promises to challenge the strategic supremacy which Japan has hitherto exercised in the Western Pacific.
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Northern Advocate, 13 December 1937, Page 2
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