Fort Sherman
Former US Army base in Panama / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the U.S. Army base in Panama. For the nineteenth-century fort in Idaho, see Fort Sherman (Idaho).
Fort Sherman is a former United States Army base in Panama, located on Toro Point at the Caribbean (northern) end of the Panama Canal, on the western bank of the Canal directly opposite Colón (which is on the eastern bank). It was the primary defensive base for the Caribbean sector of the Canal, and was also the center for US jungle warfare training for some time. Its Pacific-side partner was Fort Amador. Both bases were turned over to Panama in 1999.
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