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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 ...
The outbreak of World War I caused the cancellation of any official "grand opening" celebration, but the canal officially opened to commercial traffic on 15 August 1914 with the transit of the SS Ancon. During World War II, the canal proved vital to American military strategy, allowing ships to transfer easily between the Atlantic and Pacific.
The work proceeded for several years, and significant excavation was carried out on the new approach channels, but the project was canceled after World War II. [74] [75] After World War II, US control of the canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it became contentious; relations between Panama and the United States became increasingly tense.
The agreements declared the canal neutral and open to all vessels and provided for joint US-Panamanian control of the territory until the end of 1999, when Panama would be given full control.
After the end of World War II, the vessel changed hands to the Tidewater Commercial Company in Panama who renamed it Tidewater in 1946, and again to Continental in 1948. Two years later, the Bernstein Line in Panama acquired the ship and renamed her back to Ancon before sending her to Italian shipbreakers, arriving on 26 October 1950.
It played a huge role in the shipping of goods needed by allied forces during World War II, and thousands of U.S. troops were stationed there to guarantee its security.
Date: 1939–1945: Events: ... Panama was the most important Latin American nation for the Allies because of the Panama Canal, ... At the end of World War II in ...
Until the end of World War II in 1945, the Panama Canal Zone operated under a Jim Crow society, where the category of "gold" represented White, U.S. workers and the title "silver" represented the non-White, non-U.S. workers on the Zone. There were even separate entrances for each group at the Post Office.