Every schoolchild in America knows the mantra of the creation of the Panama Canal. What most don't know is just how many thousands of men and years of intense planning have gone into protecting the Panama Canal. With the ultimate victory of the Japanese Empire in the frothing waves of the Pacific, what little grasp the United States does have on the largest ocean on the planet could only be iron-clad. The main artery of the American Empire, not only is it the vital link between the Occident and the Orient - it poses the largest target in the entire Western Hemisphere.

If the Second Pacific War was ever to break out, nobody is under any illusion that Japan wouldn't target Panama. From elaborate defense grids of thousands of anti-air weapons to hundreds of rows of concrete bunkers ready to wipe out any potential landing, one would be hard pressed to find someone more militarised than a strip of land, surrounded by jungle.