ANTARCTIC BASES
SUGGESTED BY ADMIRAL BYRD. IN EVENT OF DESTRUCTION OF PANAMA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON. April 30. Rear-Admiral R. Byrd told the Appropriations Committee that the Antarctic could be macle a strategic supply base should the Panama Canal be destroyed. Palmer Land was 500 miles from the southern tip of South America and could be used as a base for ships to cache vital supplies. Little America could be used, as a landing place for plane flights between the United States and Australia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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89ANTARCTIC BASES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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