Name This Strategic Military Location

Spot on Flyboy. Your turn.

 

Thanks Lippert! Here's an island that should be easy to identify. The "tadpole" lies in a position to protect the capital of a US ally. It was also the HQ for American forces there before WWII.

 

Correcto Mondo, Slip! Over to you!

 

Well until Slipdigit,

finds a new one I will forward this little Island base of importance in the Pacific.

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Regards
Kruska

 

Wake Island?

 

Hello texson66,

Wow, that was fast - your next

Regards
Kruska

 

The "Army's Navy" Assembled here to support MacArthur in New Guinea and the Philippines

 

Would it be, Arawe in New Britian?

 

Try a little to the North West, JTF-2!

 

Lombrom, Los Negros Is.

 

Sorry I'm late answering! No not it. Think Northwest of there

 

OK, maybe its not whats on land we should be looking for, but whats at sea. So, could it be Seeadler Harbor?

 

Correcto Mondo, Wh1skea! Over to you!

 

OK,

1) Home to small squimishes in the PTO
2) Often patrolled by submarines
3) Closest the US had come to being invaded since 1812

 

Kiska island in the Aleutian islands of AK, USA

 

yep, back to you

 

Thanks, wh1skea! Here's another location with a US Navy victory in the opening round of a great sea battle:

"Two Japanese battleships, one cruiser, and three destroyers became the final victims in history of classic battle line tactics. It is perhaps fitting that this fight would take place among ships a quarter of a century old, given one final curtain call to fight in the manner of centuries of naval engagements."

Where was this battle?

 

Surigao Strait

 

You got it! Back to you, wh1skea!