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US armed forces served at the Panama Canal in order to protect and defend this vital waterway during war. It was known the Axis Powers had designs to destroy the Canal, thus preventing the US Navy from using it to sail their warships from one ocean to another . With the destruction of the fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, this mission was critical.

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