[mportance Of
Aleutian Chain
(continued from last week)
Defensive Value
Further examination of the
ituation in the Pacific with the
id of a globe, as suggested ear
ier, will demonstrate that not
lily do the Aleutians lie on the
Dad from Tokyo to Seattle but
hat the shortest route from any
Lrt of northern Asia to any
Ut of North America, is either
trough or close to the Aleutians,
ind that a force proceeding from
Northern Asia against the
Jawaiians would leave the
lleutains on its left and rear.
Moreover, it may well occur to
jerson studying the globe that
eizure of undefended Aleutian
slandsas way stations or advance
rases for operations against us is
rot unlikely, and some such
lersons may even wonder why,
it a time when anxiety is being
nnnced about the future control
if Greenland and Iceland in the
Atlantic, we are neglecting to
tetablish bases in our outlying
ileutians in the Pacific. A globe
hows the true direction from
ind relation of one point on ear
h to another as no map can,
articularly when the unequaled
iceauic expanse of the Pacific
s involved. There the shores of
Ik two bordering continental
K2«es flow away from each
ther from the north toward the
outh in truly generous fashion.
!e angle formed at Bering Strait
etween the two lines, one run
ning directly to Panama and the
other to Singapore, is about 165
degrees; 15 degrees more and a
single straight line would connect
the three points. The distances
between the two continents at
Bering Strait is less than 100
miles, while the Panama to Sing
apore distance between contin
ents is over 12,000 miles—176
degrees of longitude—nearly half
way around the earth. This “lay
of the land” explains why there
is such a contrast between the
mileage by way of the Aleutian
crossing in the north, and that
by way of the gigantic San Fran
cisco-Hawaii-Guam - Philippines
chasm in the south; also, why
the Aleutians shield our entire
west coast from direct approach
by any conceivable hostile force.
Admiral Stirling has lately writ
ten that “the Alaskan Peninsula
and islands, very near the Great
Circle route from Seattle to Ja
pan and China, have most excel
lent natural harbors for warships
and merchant ships and many
available air fields, all as yet un
developed,” and developed he
thinks they should be. General
Drum, commanding our Second
Corps Area, has just been report
ed as saying that the surest de
fense is that which meets the en
emy far from our shores, and
that in no other way can the
bombing of our coastal cities and
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