The United States Fleet has been ordered to the Pacific from the Atlantic as soon as it has fuelled. It is reported to be as the result, at least, partly of intelligence reports that any new military developments in Europe might be coupled with action by Japan in the East Indies. The picture shows a United States anti-aircraft carrier passing through the Panama Canal for the recent manoeuvres in the Aalantic, with her deck packed with planes of the United States naval air arm.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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84The United States Fleet has been ordered to the Pacific from the Atlantic as soon as it has fuelled. It is reported to be as the result, at least, partly of intelligence reports that any new military developments in Europe might be coupled with action by Japan in the East Indies. The picture shows a United States anti-aircraft carrier passing through the Panama Canal for the recent manoeuvres in the Aalantic, with her deck packed with planes of the United States naval air arm. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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