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Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time...
"If anyone in our naval intelligence had disclosed the make-up of the Japanese attacking force, which presumably our profound scholars in Washington cubbyholes had identified by deciphering the secret Japanese code, there would have been a violation of the Espionage Act. ... Of course the Japs would immediately change their...
The press was guessing when it portrayed Winston Churchill arriving in the U.S. with the plea: "Save Suez!" But Churchill has got a clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German...
"Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she...
Geographic obstacles and poor communications should not be permitted to dim the value of this front. Retrospective foresight would recommend that the estimated losses of a year be concentrated and accepted in an offensive that would not only eject the Japanese from Karafuto [southern half of Sakhalin] but follow them...