DEFENCE OF ALASKA
AIR BASE PROPOSED WASHINGTON, March 22. The Alaskan 'delegate to Congress proposed the construction of a military air base in Alaska capable of handling 200 aeroplanes. , It. would bnviyjanding fields at Nome, and another anchorage covering the nearest of the Aleutian Islands, which stretch across the Pacific towards Japan, “to protect from attack a rich territory oiie-fifth the' size of the United States ”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5
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66DEFENCE OF ALASKA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5
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