Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatened with domestic revolution Japan turns to a foreign war to save the empire. A U. S. concession in China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from...
...unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships to two for the U. S. With the enemy fleet swept from the sea the U. S. soon...
...Gesture." In the big Pacific, two can play as well as fight. Last month Japan revealed that she was at work planning naval maneuvers that match Fleet Problem No. 14 in size and importance, send cold chills down the spines of U. S. strategists. The Japanese Grand Fleet, Naval Minister Osumi announced, is going "southward of the islands composing the territory of The Empire" in August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event...
...Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, stalwart Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, 56, will probably be on the bridge of his flagship Mutsu when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...Pacific. What Japan did in the Carolines, either with dredges or battleships, did not concern the U. S. And last week word leaked out of the Navy Department that, as a friendly gesture to Japan, the Scouting Force will probably be returned to the Atlantic at the conclusion of Fleet Problem...