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…And then acquired by the Japanese at the outbreak of WWII and then we took it back toward the end of WWII. Its importance lies in its geography. It is a nice base from which to project power. The Spanish knew that, the Japanese knew that and we knew that. Else it’d be like many mid oceanic islands. Or the Orkney islands. The importance is military strategic importance, else they’d be like the Faroe Islands. Some place somewhere.





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