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    Naval Base Trinidad, also called NAS Trinidad, NAS Port-of-Spain, was a large United States Navy Naval base built during World War II to support the many...
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  • "Base Naval de Aratu", naval base and repair facility Rio Grande do Norte: "Base Naval de Natal", naval base "Base Naval Almirante Ary Parreiras", naval base...
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    base, naval air base, closed 1945 Bahia, Brazil, Aratu seaplane base, ship-repair base, closed 1945 Caravellas, Brazil, lighter-than-air base, naval air...
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    VPB-211 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
    was maintained at Governor's Island, NAF Galeão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to the distance of Aratu from the "slot" where U-boat hunting was so abundant...
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    VPB-203 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons)
    continued to arrive at Aratu through 23 November, a detachment of five aircraft was formed and sent to NAF Natal, Brazil, for advanced base operations. This...
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    Salvador, near Salvador, Bahia, Lauro de Freitas on the Ipitinga River and the Port of Aratu. Port and blimps air base, became Salvador Bahia Airport. NAF...
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  • Navy Arsenal of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro RJ Rio de Janeiro Naval Base Rio Grande RS Rio Grande Naval Station Salvador da Bahia BA Aratu Naval Base...
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    her band of huntresses. Aratus's brief description, in his Astronomy, conflates the elements of the myth: according to Aratus, Orion attacks Artemis while...
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    sailed eastward from her island Ogygia traversing the Ocean. The Greek poet Aratus wrote in his Phainomena in the third century BC detailed positions of the...
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    classical constellations around 370 BC. His catalogue Phaenomena, rewritten by Aratus of Soli between 275 and 250 BC as a didactic poem, became one of the most...
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