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From the vicinity of Wake Island westward our course everywhere lay within airdraft operating distance of Japanese Islands. 

III. GUAM. 
1. We arrived at the port of Apra in Guam on December twenty-seventh without incident. 
2. As we approached Guam we passed close to the Japanese Island, Rota of the Caroline Group. This is about thirty-five miles north by east of Guam. It is several miles long, about eight hundred feet high and is certainly capable of aeronautical development. It has a population of several hundred. In ancient times there was a considerable traffic between the islands of the Marianna Group but now there is very little and none of the Americans, so that practically nothing is known of what goes on in these small islands. From Guam north to Japan, Tokio itself, the islands in the possession of Japan stretch in unbroken line. The greatest distance between any two is less than four hundred miles and the total distance is about fifteen hundred miles. These islands can be easily organized aeronautically and an airway established. The flying time from Tokio to Guam would be fifteen hours. Two-thirds of the way from Guam to Japan lies the Bonin Island, the formerly

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