U.S. BASE AT ECUADOR
(6.30 p.m.) QUITO (Ecuador), Mar. 4. A Government spokesman revealed that plans are under way for the construction of a United States air and naval base at Salinas, on the Gulf of Guayaquil. He added that 2000 United States troops had arrived at the Salinas area to begin work on the fortifications. Under the agreement between the Ecuadorian and United States Governments American air and naval forces would patrol the Ecuadorian coast and a land force would guard the mineral petroleum deposits in the Salinas area.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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90U.S. BASE AT ECUADOR Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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