Office of the Historian

811.24532/10–2846

The Chief of the Service Group, General Staff Corps (Bradshaw) to the Acting Chief of the Division of Investment and Economic Development (Havlick)

secret
Washington, October 28, 1946.

Dear Mr. Havlick: The following installations, located in Brazil, have been placed in the category of surplus by the War Department effective 25 October 1946:

  • Ibura Field, Recife, Brazil
  • Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brazil
  • Amapa Airfield and Radio Range, Montenegro, Brazil
  • Tirirical Field and Radio Range, São Luis, Brazil
  • Ipitanga Field, Bahia, Brazil
  • Fernando de Noronha Airport, Natal, Brazil
  • Adjacento Field, Fortaleza, Brazil
  • Val de Cans Field and Sea Base, Belém, Brazil
  • Natal Sea Base, Natal, Brazil
  • Aratu Sea Plane Base, Bahia, Brazil.58

Information summaries pertaining to these installations are inclosed herewith.59

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The War Department will proceed with the disposition of these facilities in accordance with the “Procedure to Govern Disposal of Military Facilities which are Subject to Prior Agreements with other American Republics” proposed in letter from the Secretary of State dated 8 March 1946, and concurred in by the War Department in reply dated 20 March 1946.60

Sincerely yours,

Aaron Bradshaw, Jr.

Brigadier General, GSC
  1. According to a War Department Notice of Surplus Declaration, the amount of United States investment in these installations was, respectively: $4.892,906: $9,403,561: $2,441,133; $3,141,951; $3,243,181; $2,773,896; $1,958,045; $6,377,598; $842,397; $1,459,448 (811.24532/10–2846).↩
  2. None printed.↩
  3. Neither printed.↩