Guam on the Front Line

Pan American Airways had a strong connection to several of the Pacific islands where the U.S. Navy was building air bases on the eve of World War II. In Building for War, I discuss the mutually beneficial relationship that allowed the airline to establish bases on Midway, Wake, and Guam in 1935, and the Navy to follow up by building facilities on those strategically located islands a few years later. By late 1941 naval air stations were nearing...

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