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Guam Major Navy Base expansion and costs summarized
The article details five years after World War II how the Navy spent about $122 million on Guam base construction, with Congress adding about $41 million more and another $14 million sought. It outlines Apra Harbor work totaling $20.8 million, typhoon resistant housing costs, and power, water, and fuel projects. It notes the Guam base aims as a strategic hub central to Pacific theaters with distances to Tokyo Manila Formosa and Hong Kong.
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SY Leif Frickron
Agana
Guam
Navy
Congress
Gusm
Gibraltar
Aer
Pearl Harbor
C. Ewen
Naval Force
Marianas
Air Force
Army
Honging
Orale
Ashers
Fena