JOINT DEFENCE OF ALASKA
CANADA AND UNITED STATES JUNEAU, Feb. 23. It would be two years before the strengthening of Alaska’s inadequate defences began, Lieutenant-General Nathon Twining, Alaskan military chief, said to-day. He added that the joint AmericanCanadian defence plan was designed to meet the possibility of enemy airborne landings, bomber attacks on important installations and widespread use of submarines against supply lines. The defence plan involved large-scale American-Canadian co-operation. It called for the use of American troops in Canada and of Canadians in the United States, if necessary. The Canadian Press said that Canada intended to maintain small, mobile land and. air forces ready to cope with any enemy raids. The Canadian services believed that any attack on the Canadian north would involve enemy airborne forces up to 1000, rtiding weather stations, airstrips and other installations and hoping to tie up large forces and spread panic among the population.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 113, 25 February 1950, Page 5
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150JOINT DEFENCE OF ALASKA Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 113, 25 February 1950, Page 5
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