Coco Solo

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View of US Naval Station Coco Solo in 1941

Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base founded in 1918 in the Atlantic Ocean on the northwest side of the Panama Canal Zone near Colón .

The US Senator John McCain was born there in 1936 in the Navy Hospital on the Coco Solo Naval Air Station. In 1948 the geophysicist Thomas H. Jordan was born in Coco Solo.

Coco Solo Hospital was built in the summer of 1941. The area, which belonged to the civilian part of the Panama Canal, was assigned to the Navy with the so-called Executive Order 8981 on December 17, 1941 by President Franklin Roosevelt . During the Second World War , Coco Island also served as a base for a P-38 Lightning aircraft squadron of the Navy.

From the 1960s onwards, there were no longer any Navy ships on site, only staff and houses. Coco Solo was also home to Atlantic Side High School, Cristobal Jr Sr High, which was also the high school for Panamanians from Rainbow City in the 1970s.

From the early 1980s to the mid 1990s, Coco Solo was used by the US Navy , Marine Corps, and Army as a residential and administrative area for operations on the nearby Galeta Island facilities.

After the Panama Canal was returned to Panama in 1999, the US military ended activities in both Coco Solo and Galeta Island.

Coco Solo is currently home to two large container terminals, including the Manzanillo International Terminal, the largest container terminal in Latin America.

Web links

Commons : Naval Station Coco Solo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Alexander: Man of the People: The Life of John McCain. John Wiley & Sons , 2002, ISBN 0-471-22829-X , p. 12.
  2. ^ Robert Timberg: John McCain: An American Odyssey. Touchstone Books , 1999, ISBN 0-684-86794-X , pp. 17-34.
  3. Executive Order 8981 - NAVY HOSPITAL AREA, COCO SOLO, CANAL ZONE . United States Government . December 17, 1941. Retrieved May 16, 2008.

Coordinates: 9 ° 22 ′ 21 ″  N , 79 ° 52 ′ 52 ″  W.