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Tanki Maraka: the US Radar Base 50 Miles from Venezuela (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-12-21 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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JFLGA
When my wife and I visited Aruba in 2004, we were told that most of the aviation fuel used by the allied forces in the ETO came from the refinery on Aruba. Perhaps the locals were exagerating a bit?
Bruce Brodnax
Geez, who got the Caribbean Command billets? Purely politicos' sons? I knew we had naval patrols [esp. around Martinique, since Vichy was compelled to offer support to German u-boaten...] in Carib, but actual Army installations? Totally fresh news to me! Thanks Ian...
Squid556
Neat bit of lesser known history
Jonathan Limebrook
Baseball court? Come on, Ian, are you a red-blooded American or not?
Mustafa's Fleas
An interesting peek into one of those "backwater" assignments suffered(?) by those that volunteered and were drafted into that, which is today known as the 2nd great unpleasantness of the 20th century.
