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...
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Sea Frontiers were several, now disestablished, commands of the United States Navy as areas of defense against enemy vessels, especially submarines, along...
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John F. Shafroth Jr. (section Panama and Hawaii)
Shafroth remained in the Navy and commanded Seventh Naval district, Panama Sea Frontier and General Board of the Navy. He served as President, Naval Historical...
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protected by the United States Navy with an additional 23 sunk at the Panama Sea Frontier. Dönitz put the successes down to the American failure to initialize...
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Sea Frontier Caribbean Sea Frontier Eastern Sea Frontier Gulf Sea Frontier Hawaiian Sea Frontier Moroccan Sea Frontier Northwest Sea Frontier Panama Sea...
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Farrow. From September 1942 until early in 1943 she served on the Panama Sea Frontier, when she was transferred to the Solomon Islands. PT-105, under the...
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the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area...
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Within two months R-9 was en route to the Caribbean Sea and duty under Commander, Panama Sea Frontier. Arriving at Coco Solo on 27 May, she patrolled the...
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Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone. One of its first submarines was the R-1 built in 1917. Her ten boats conducted Panama Sea Frontier patrols for the...
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Tenth Fleet (Convoy and Routing) and transmitted to Commander, Panama Sea Frontier, for the information of the latter authority and for transmission...
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Island on Taboga Island in the Gulf of Panama was opened in 1942 at Pacific Canal entrance, under Panama Sea Frontier. An Advance base and PT boat base were...
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Releasing her escort on 15 November, Lagarto reported to Commander, Panama Sea Frontier, to begin her shakedown two days later. Captain John G. Johns supervised...
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shakedown a month after commissioning, ATA–183 reported to commander, Panama Sea Frontier, 14 December 1944. Based at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, the ocean tug...
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1944, he assumed command of Lightship No. 115, operating in the Panama Sea Frontier. Thus, he became the first admitted Hispanic of African descent to...
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battleship gray. Sea Cloud was commissioned as a United States Coast Guard Cutter on April 4, 1942, and assigned to the Eastern Sea Frontier, with a permanent...
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the Canal Zone, 5 May 1941. There she performed patrol duties for Panama Sea Frontier until 11 February 1943, when she arrived Salinas, Ecuador, for transfer...
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Acushnet reached Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, on 13 July, via Havana, Cuba, and operated under the auspices of the Panama Sea Frontier until returning to Norfolk...
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The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated...
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Commander Panama Sea Frontier for failure to engage the enemy. 16 April 1944: Lieutenant Wilson Van Alst Jr., and crew made a forced night landing at sea after...
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Relieving John D. Edwards under the auspices of Commander, Panama Sea Frontier, Alden operated in Panama waters as a training ship with submarines into November...
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was transferred to the Balboa, Panama, where he was appointed as commander of 15th Naval District, Panama Sea Frontier and Commander Southeast Pacific...
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commands after this date, with the Army assuming command of the Panama Sea Frontier, and VP-32 becoming the long-range reconnaissance arm of the Sixth...
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deployed to NAS Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, under the operational control of FAW-3 under the Commander Panama Sea Frontier. Upon completion of the deployment...
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Darién Gap (category Wetlands of Panama)
region that connects the American continents, stretching across southern Panama's Darién Province and the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department...
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where security patrols were flown in the Pacific sector of the Panama Sea Frontier. Three daily patrols were flown between Salinas, and Galapagos Islands...
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Clarence Samuels (category Panamanian emigrants to the United States)
assumed command of Lightship No. 115, Frying Pan, operating in the Panama Sea Frontier. Thus, he became the first Hispanic of African descent to command...
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Cristóbal, Panama Canal Zone, and arrived on 17 July, whereupon the unit was dissolved, and the escorts were assigned to duty with the Panama Sea Frontier. Walter...
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USS Erie (PG-50) (category World War II shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea)
transferred to the Offshore Patrol-Atlantic of the Panama Sea Frontier, and subsequently, to the Caribbean Sea Frontier Task Force in 1942. On 21 February, the SOC-2...
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II, Woodcock operated under the auspices of the Panama Sea Frontier Command, working between the Panama Canal Zone and New Orleans, Louisiana. While performing...
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1945. He became commandant of the Fifteenth Naval District and the Panama Sea Frontier. He served in that role until June 1946. He retired on November 1...
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