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...mount an attack via Rus-sian Siberia, is sound. (If Russia declares war, says Dr. Hsu, Japan can easily cut the lifeline of the Trans-Siberian railway, and has consistently kept an approximate 25% preponderance of troops facing the Russians.) Therefore United Nations strategy will call for a huge armada of ships and millions of men if China cannot be used as an attack base...
Last week many sources reported that the Japanese were gathering in Rabaul a force even greater than the armada which in mid-November failed to retake Guadalcanal. The only dissident voice in the Allied chorus warning about the concentration was that of Navy Secretary Frank Knox, who said: "To my knowledge there is no such concentration." An anonymous Navy spokesman next day went out of his way to correct the Secretary by saying that both the Allies and the enemy are throwing great weight into the area and that increased activity may be expected any day. The concentration, it appeared...
...declined to reveal how many British supply ships and transports had been sunk. Let the enemy rely "on his false claims as in the past," said Alexander. All losses were "considerably less than expected." On the basis of these first reports, they were only 2% of the 850-ship armada that made the attack...
...armada of protecting planes, which neither saw nor was seen by the convoys, ran interference for the ships. The planes flew from Britain over the Bay of Biscay for 8,000 flying hours, pounced on subs that left bases in Occupied France to intercept the convoy. Said the British account: "Our bombers only thought they were out on the biggest U-boat hunt of the war. They had no idea that just west across the Bay our convoy was slipping through to Africa." As the convoy neared Africa, bombers from Gibraltar made an umbrella for the landings. Fifty submarines menaced...
...twelve. The remaining Jap transports went on toward Guadalcanal. The U.S. warships closed in again. Next morning four more transports were found beached at Tassafaronga, seven and a half miles west of Henderson Field. Presumably some of their troops had landed under fire during the night. But the Jap armada had fled...