Word: ranh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antagonism. Japan, he insists, is "America's enemy for all time." Japan will never forgive defeat, and there will never be a "common ground of ethical beliefs" for the two countries. Consequently, America must take under her "full and unequivocal" administration such bases as Singapore, New Caledonia, Cam Ranh Bay, Penang. A "tradition of [American] political activity" must be created south of the Chinese coast ports...
...sink Jap merchantmen as they sailed, loaded, out of the harbor. Last month a French flyer who stole a 14-year-old biplane and escaped to Chungking from Indo-China reported that U.S. subs had made it so hot in that area that the Japs no longer used Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base. Nowadays Jap warships are forced to provide convoys for supply ships...
...more important than Japan's new air position is her new sea position. From Saigon and Cam-ranh Bay (an excellent fleet anchorage which can be made in time into a naval base) the Japanese now can more easily cut the British sea route from Singapore to Hong Kong. Moreover, they have a central position from which to intercept fleet movements between Manila and Singapore. With Japanese bases in Indo-China, Hainan, Formosa and the mandated islands to the east of the Philippines, Manila is now almost encircled by Japanese outposts...
Conversely, the Japanese have deliberately put themselves in a spot encircled by hostile possessions. The ABCD powers -American, British, Chinese, Dutch-surround Indo-China. The Japanese line of supply is now a 2,000-mile sea route from Cam-ranh Bay to Nagasaki, and U.S. planes, submarines and surface vessels operating from Manila could make it an uncomfortable route. To reach Indo-China the Japanese have to pass through one of two channels-the 150-mile channel between Formosa and the mainland or the 235-mile channel between Formosa and Luzon-where patrols can keep a good lookout...
...three Tonkin air bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...