News from the Bases

Building nine new naval and air bases in a couple of years is no easy job, and the U.S. was lucky to have indications last week that some progress was being made at a few points on its outer defense line in the Atlantic:

> Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that two naval air bases (on sites leased from Great Britain) will soon be commissioned: at Bermuda on July 1, at Newfoundland on July 15. The choices of officers to command these bases gave a hint of the kind of naval air forces...

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