[bjorn14]

McCain was not born in the Zone but in a public hospital in Colon about a mile away. The Naval Hospital in the Zone was built a year later.

[Kaslin]

Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base and naval air station established 6 May 1918 that corresponds with modern-day Cativa in Panama. It was on the Atlantic Ocean (northwest) side of the Panama Canal Zone, near Colon, Panama and five C-class submarines were based there 1914-1919.

John McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at at a small Navy hospital at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.

The larger Coco Solo Hospital was constructed in the summer of 1941. The area containing it was transferred from the civil part of the Panama Canal Zone to the naval part when Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8981 on December 17, 1941. During World War II, Coco Solo also served as a Naval Aviation Facility, housing a squadron of P-38 Lightning aircraft.