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Contents

  • History
  • Economics
  • President Arias
  • President De la Guardia
  • President Jiménez
  • Defenses
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • References

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Panama during World War II
16 inch rifle Panama 1939.jpg
A 16-inch U.S. M1919 Coastal Defense Gun and crew in the Panamanian jungle in 1939. The caption says: "Hidden in deep jungle foliage is 16-in. rifle, the Army's biggest gun"
Location Panama
Date1939–1945
EventsThe Panama Conference
– September 1939
The Arias Coup
– October 7, 1941
Declaration of war
– December 7–13, 1941
Operation Pelikan
– Fall 1943
The Panama Canal strike
– June 1945

Due to the American-controlled Panama Canal cutting across the center of the country, Panama was of major strategic importance to the Allied war effort, as well as the most important strategic location in Latin America during World War II. It provided an invaluable link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that was vital to both commerce and the defense of the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, the defense of the Canal Zone was the United States' chief concern in the American Theater. Panama never received Lend-Lease assistance, but in return for the rights to build military infrastructure within Panamanian territory, the United States undertook large-scale public works projects, which did much to modernize the country and boost the economy. [1] [2]

History

Economics

According to Thomas M. Leonard's Latin America during World War II, the war had a major impact on the Panamanian economy. Commercial transit through the canal dropped more than a third between 1940 and 1945, resulting in a two-thirds decrease in toll revenues. In contrast, Panama's domestic production rose, due to an increased demand caused by the war. Production of sugar, milk, and slaughtered cattle nearly doubled between 1939 and 1946. The government accelerated the take off by quadrupling expenditures, but the real catalyst was the influx in American dollars. [1]

Between 1930 and 1943, American capital investments dropped sharply in every Latin American country except oil-rich Venezuela and Panama. Leonard says that Panama enjoyed the higher percentage increase of the two, as investment multiplied threefold to $514 million, mostly in banking and utilities. The number of American-controlled enterprises increased from twenty-two in 1929 to seventy-nine in 1943. Additionally, an estimated 12.5 percent of the Panamanian workforce was employed in the Canal Zone. In 1939, there were 3,511 "gold roll" (U.S. rate) workers in the zone, and 11, 246 "silver roll" (local rate) workers. By 1942 the numbers had grown to 8,550 and 28,686, respectively. The influx of workers to the Canal Zone and to Panama City and Colón was so large that the Panamanian government complained about the scarcity of teachers and other skilled employees. The government did, however, try to take advantage of the situation by "strengthening" English language education in schools and emphasizing vocational training in commercial and business administration so as to encourage the development of small businesses and provide skilled employees for the increased number of commercial enterprises. [1]

Panamanians, as well as immigrants were employed in the construction of a third set of locks for the canal, numerous highways, and over 100 defense sites across the country. The highway construction included a stretch of road from Panama City to Río Hato Field in the west, and a road between Panama City and Colon, known as the Transisthmian Highway. Along with the increased number of Panamanians, the United States also imported thousands of workers from other Central American nations and the West Indies. The additional workers and military personnel prompted the American government to purchase huge amounts of food and other goods, thus helping to spur activity in Panama's agricultural industry. [1]

President Arias

Elected in 1940, Arnulfo Arias was the President of Panama during two of the first years of the war. He was an overt fascist and regarded as pro-Axis by the Allies for his hostility to the United States and his eagerness to limit American influence over his territory. In 1939, the United States military requested 999-year leases from the Republic of Panama to build over 100 sites outside the Canal Zone – such as airfields, anti-aircraft batteries, and warning stations – which would be used for the defense of the canal. Arias demanded compensation in the form of cash and the transfer to Panama of various properties, but for the United States the price was too high. Negotiations dragged on for the next two years. Eventually, on February 13, 1941, the Panamanian government advised the Americans that, if it were to grant such a request, the United States government would have to declare that an imminent threat to the canal's safety existed. [1] [2] [3]

On the same day, the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, issued the following statement:

The government of the United States has... reached the conclusion that, in accordance with the terms of Article X of the Treaty of 1936... an international conflagration has broken out bringing with it the existence of a threat to the security of the Panama Canal which requires the taking of measures for the defense of the canal on the part of the Government of the United States. [1]

On February 18, the Panamanian government issued a memorandum that included twelve specific demands in exchange for the base leases:

A map of the Panama Canal Zone. CanalZone.png
A map of the Panama Canal Zone.
  • Transfer, without cost, of the sanitation systems in the cities of Panama and Colon
  • Transfer of all lands belonging to the Panama Railroad in Panama City and Colon, valued at approximately $12 million
  • Both governments to intensify their efforts at preventing contraband from the Canal Zone into Panamanian territory
  • Construction of a bridge across the canal
  • U.S. assumption of a third of all costs to improve and maintain all roads and highways used by its military in Panama
  • The cessation of importing Caribbean blacks to work in the Canal Zone
  • U.S. military police and zone police restricted to the use of only billy clubs outside of the zone
  • Excess electricity from canal operations to be distributed to Panama City and Colon, as requested by the Panamanian government
  • United States to assume full cost of the road to Rio Hato, and therefore to pay the $2 million borrowed by Panama for this purchase from the U.S.-operated Export-Import Bank
  • The United States to transfer the railroad station in Panama City to the government of Panama
  • The United States to pay an indemnity of the flow of U.S. troops during wartime interrupted regular canal traffic
  • The United States to provide workers for building an oil pipeline between Panama City and the Balboa port.

The cost of meeting these demands was estimated to be $25–30 million, and was one of the reasons why the negotiations lasted so long. There was also a serious disagreement over the length of the leases for the new defense sites. Most agreed that 999 years was simply way too long, and tantamount to ownership. So, after abandoning the request for 999-year leases, the military sought them for at least a ten-year period, the State Department wanted them for as long as a threat to the canal existed, and Arias wanted the bases back as soon as the war ended. Another controversial issue was the United States government's request to arm ships registered in Panama. The Battle of the Atlantic was taking its toll on the supply lines from America to Britain, and some of the ships were being sunk not long after exiting the canal. Because Panama was officially neutral at this point in the war, German U-boats could not legally attack Panamanian-flagged ships. President Arias refused to help, however, and American plans to use U.S.-owned ships flying a Panamanian flag to supply the British were interrupted. [1]

President De la Guardia

A German Junkers Ju 52/3m, which was confiscated by Peru and transferred to the United States as a war prize, at Howard Field in late 1942. The aircraft was designated as a C-79 and given the serial 42-52883 while in United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) service. German Junkers Ju 52 in USAAF service 1942.jpg
A German Junkers Ju 52/3m, which was confiscated by Peru and transferred to the United States as a war prize, at Howard Field in late 1942. The aircraft was designated as a C-79 and given the serial 42-52883 while in United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) service.

Arias' refusal to help the Allies by arming Panamanian ships, and his hard-line stance during the defense site negotiations led many in the United States government to conclude that "he had to go." One man said the following about a possible American invasion to oust Arias: "The present conditions are considered dangerous to the security of the canal and it is believed that they should be corrected as soon as possible. A local revolution to throw out the crooked pro-Axis officialdom would be preferable to intervention by U.S. forces." Shortly thereafter, on October 7, 1941, the Americans were granted their wish when a bloodless coup removed Arias from power. With Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia as the new president, the defense site negotiations moved forward quickly and positively for the United States. Then the Japanese attacked the American naval base in Hawaii, which accelerated the process of negotiations even more. The new Panamanian government declared war on Japan on December 7, 1941, on the same day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and a day before the United States officially entered the war. Panama then declared war on Germany and Fascist Italy on December 13, 1941, along with a few other Latin American states. [1] [3] [4]

On May 18, [5] 1942, the United States and Panama finally signed an agreement for the lease of 134 sites to be used for the protection of the canal. The accord called for the occupation of the sites to end one year after the end of the war, and for the United States to pay $50 per hectare annually for the bases, except Rio Hato, for which it would pay $10,000 a year. Finally, Panama received promises for the completion of various public works projects, including the Rio Hato Road, the bridge over the canal, and a third set of locks for the canal itself. [1]

Ironically, in spite of De la Guardia's cooperation with the United States, throughout the war the American government refused repeated Panamanian requests for Lend-Lease assistance. A State Department official was quoted as saying: "[it was] desirable to keep something dangling before the noses of our Panamanian friends. There is no profit to us in giving the present administration all of the gravy." However, in order to reward De la Guardia for his actions, and in order to bolster the president's position domestically, the United States provided the new government with hundreds of automatic weapons and pistols, boats, and other war materials, in addition to a permanent military mission to assist in training the Panamanian National Police. Some of the weapons provided by the United States were soon put to work in putting down an armed coup. In September 1943, a group of dissident police officers and civilians plotted a rebellion, but they were uncovered by loyal police shortly thereafter, and crushed accordingly. [1]

President Jiménez

The end of the war in September 1945 brought about another misunderstanding between Panama and the United States. Although the peace treaty had not entered into effect, Panama demanded that ownership of the defense sites be relinquished, resting its claim on a subsidiary provision of the agreement permitting renegotiation after the cessation of hostilities. President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez, who took office in June 1945, authorized a draft treaty over the opposition of the foreign minister and exacerbated latent resentment.

The upheaval of 1947 was instigated in large measure by university students. Their clash with the National Police on that occasion, in which both students and policemen were killed, marked the beginning of a period of intense animosity between the two groups.

Defenses

The light cruiser USS Concord off Balboa, Panama, on January 6, 1943. USS Concord (CL-10) off Balboa 1943.jpg
The light cruiser USS Concord off Balboa, Panama, on January 6, 1943.

Each end of the canal was heavily protected by a concentration of coastal artillery that at one time was regarded as the most powerful and effective of any in the world. In addition, the lock areas – at Gatun, Pedro Miguel, and Miraflores – were protected by land fortifications. [2]

The army had been given the mission of protecting the canal against sabotage and of defending it from positions within the Canal Zone. Close in defense was thus an army responsibility except for two specific tasks: that of providing an armed guard on vessels passing through the canal, and that of maintaining a harbor patrol at the entrances to the canal. Both of these tasks were entrusted to the United States Navy, along with its primary responsibility for offshore defense. The Air Corps forces in Panama were to be prepared to assist the navy in its main task of detecting and repelling enemy forces at sea, but only so far as air bases within the Canal Zone would permit, and only to an extent agreed upon by the local army commander. At the top of the military hierarchy was the commanding general of the Panama Canal Department. Directly under him were the commanders of the 19th Air Wing and of the two sectors, each one of which was independent of the other. [2]

In the years before and during World War II, American forces stationed in Panama were assigned to one of two sectors: The Atlantic Sector, initially with the 1st Coast Artillery Regiment and the 14th Infantry Regiment, guarded the northern (Atlantic) entrance of the canal, and the Pacific Sector, with the 4th Coast Artillery Regiment, the 33rd Infantry Regiment, and a battalion of the 2nd Field Artillery, guarded the southern (Pacific) end. In addition to the troops assigned to the sectors, certain units were directly under the commanding general of the Panama Canal Department. These department troops included air units – the 19th Composite Wing, with about twenty-eight medium bombers, fourteen light bombers, twenty-four pursuit planes, and a few trainers and utility planes – plus a regiment of combat engineers, together with Signal Corps, quartermaster, and ordnance units, and other service and administrative detachments. [2]

In 1939, the total strength of the garrison came to approximately 13,500 men. Over the next few years, the defenses in Panama were gradually improved, and the American population in the Canal Zone grew. At the height of the war, 65,000 American soldiers were stationed in Panama, plus tens of thousands of civilian employees and other military personnel. Among the new military infrastructure in Panama was an airbase, Howard Field, which was necessary for the operation of modern aircraft. Other facilities, such as Albrook Field, the naval base at Coco Solo, and the coastal defenses, were expanded and modernized. In spite of the heavy defenses, and the canal's importance to the Allied war effort, Panama never came under attack by the Axis, and the threat of one seemed to diminish more and more as the war progressed. Both the Germans and the Japanese did, however, develop plans to bomb the canal with aircraft deployed from submarines. The German plan, codenamed Operation Pelikan, was aborted for unknown reasons in late 1943, just after preparations had been completed. The Japanese operation was scheduled for mid-1945, but it was also aborted because by then the war was almost over, and so bombing the canal wasn't as urgent as stopping the American fleet that was advancing across the Pacific. [1] [2] [3] [6] [7]

Gallery

  • 74th Attack Squadron with Northrup A-17 1939.jpg
    74th Attack Squadron ground crew with a Northrop A-17 at Rio Hato Field in 1939.
  • President Roosevelt disembarks from USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), February 1940.jpg
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Naval Aide, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, taking the salute of a composite battalion of the 14th Infantry at Gatun Locks as they were disembarking from USS Tuscaloosa. February 18, 1940
  • NS Coco Solo Panama 1941 NAN7-64.jpg
    Aerial view of Naval Station Coco Solo in 1941.
  • Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 tri-motor In USAAF service 1942.jpg
    An Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 tri-motor airliner in USAAF service at Howard Field in 1942. This aircraft was acquired by the USAAF from the Italian Latin American Airline (LATI) which was seized in Chile by local government officials and provided to the squadron due to the severe shortage of USAAF transports in Central America. Although flown to Howard Field, the aircraft was not used for any operational missions.
  • P-40C 29th Fighter Squadron May 1942.jpg
    A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk of the 29th Fighter Squadron at Madden Army Airfield in May 1942.
  • Boeing XC-105 Grandpappy and crew in Panama 1943 090430-F-1234S-004.jpg
    Monochrome photograph of the Boeing XC-105 in 1943, shown in Panama at Albrook Field with the airplane's flight crew posed in front of the nose which is painted with an elephant carrying supplies and the name "Grandpappy." The one-of-a-kind aircraft was previously designated the Boeing XB-15. It was scrapped in 1945 at Albrook Field.
  • 20th Transport Squadron aircraft - 1943.jpg
    20th Troop Carrier Squadron [8] aircraft at Howard Field in 1943.
  • US Navy 030728-N-0000X-004 Entertainers Bob Hope and Francis Langford entertaining patients at the Coco Solo Hospital.jpg
    Entertainers Bob Hope and Francis Langford entertaining patients at the Coco Solo Hospital on March 9, 1944. Entertainers present include (left to right): Frances Langford, Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna, Bob Hope, and Tony Romano. Also present is Wendell Niles.

See also

  • Heinkel He 111 during the Battle of Britain.jpg World War II portal
  • Flag of Panama.svg Panama portal
  • History of Panama (1904-1964)
  • Panama Sea Frontier
  • Southeast Pacific Area
  • Inter-American Highway
  • Battle of the Caribbean
  • Military history of the United States during World War II
  • Colombia during World War II

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Leonard, Thomas M.; Bratzel, John F. (2007). Latin America during World War II. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-0742537415.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from Chapter XII: Forging the Defenses of the Canal. United States Army Center of Military History . Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Panama : World War II and Mid-century intrigues – Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Brewer, Stewart (2006). Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   0275982041.
  5. ↑ "Panama Grants Land to U.S. for Canal Defense". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 19, 1942. p. 7. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
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  8. ↑ Fact Sheet 20 Reconnaissance Squadron (ACC) 7/30/2012

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