| Entry Text: | VINTRAS, R. E. The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. 183p., bibliog., illus. London: Bachman & Turner, 1974. ISBN: 0859740129.
A personal memoir by one of the participants of the circumstances in which the ancient treaties with Portugal were invoked to allow the setting up of airbases in the Azores in 1943. Transcripts of these treaties and of various wartime memoranda are reproduced. The naval expedition to set up the bases is then briefly described. |
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