In late 1941, the Army's only major overseas garrisons were in the Philippines and the Panama Canal Zone, then American protectorates, and Hawaii, then a territory.

Along Fourth of July Avenue, which forms the international boundary between Panama City and a residential area of the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, 2,000 demonstrators and students, angry at being ...

Then the Canal Company’s public information officer, William Griffin Arey Jr., had an inspiration. For $14.85 he bought 60 tiny U.S. and Panamanian flags to decorate lamp posts on the zone side ...

Panama Canal Zone veterans were not explicitly named in the PACT Act. But the law gave the VA the ability to pinpoint other groups of veterans in need of benefits.