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Operation Pelikan (German: Unternehmen Pelikan), also known as Projekt 14, was a German plan for crippling the Panama Canal during World War II.In mid-late 1943 the Wehrmacht had completed preparations to haul two Ju 87 Stukas with folding wings on two U-boats to an unnamed Colombian island near the coast of Panama, reassemble the planes, arm them with "special bombs", and then send them to ...
"Herman the German" (YD-171) at Long Beach Navy Yard in 1957 "Herman the German" was seized as a war prize following the end of World War II. "Herman" was dismantled and transported across the Atlantic through the Panama Canal to Long Beach, where it subsequently served at the Long Beach Navy Yard from 1946 (following its reassembly) to 1994 (when the shipyard was closed).
Panama Canal Zone map O-class submarines at Coco Solo in 1923. Rodman Naval Station in 1989 with USS Briscoe (DD-977), USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23), Jesse L. Brown , Manitowoc, and the Colombian ARC USS Independiente (54) and ARC Antioquia (FM-53) A schematic of the Panama Canal, illustrating the sequence of locks and passages Location of Panama between the Pacific Ocean (bottom) and the ...
The light cruiser USS Concord off Balboa, Panama, on January 6, 1943. The Panama Sea Frontier was a U.S. Navy command responsible during and shortly after World War II for the defense of the Pacific and Atlantic sea approaches to the Panama Canal and naval shore facilities in the Central America region.
Curaçao to Panama Canal: 1942 1942 CW Panama Canal to Key West, Florida: CZ Curaçao to Panama Canal: FH Saint John, New Brunswick to Halifax Harbour: late 1942 G Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Puerto Rico: GAT: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Trinidad via Aruba: GJ Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Kingston, Jamaica: GK: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to ...
The American-owned and operated both the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad, but with the looming war in Europe, the United States felt it necessary to establish a more direct connection with Panama. Therefore, the United States and Panamanian governments agreed to begin the construction of a trans-isthmian highway located outside of the ...
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SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. [6] As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years.