Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Congressman last week got batches of red-hot mail asking him why in the blankety-blank he had been so blankety-blank stupid to vote against fortifying Guam when the Navy asked for it, back in 1939 and 1940. Meantime Congressmen began sounding off with a little hot talk of their...
...time war breaks out between Japan and the United States, I shall not be content merely to capture Guam and the Philippines and occupy Hawaii and San Francisco. I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington...
...Captured Guam...
...first U.S. offensive action would doubtless be a splicing of the raveled lifeline. The U.S. Navy would doubtless try to relieve Wake & Midway, retake Guam. The first attack was probably already on the way. It may have been, and probably was, slowed by the losses at Pearl Harbor. Even if the U.S. Navy had to draw on some of its Atlantic strength, it would have to try to fight its way to the Philippines. The southern supply route, by way of New Zealand and Australia, might do for a time but not for long...
...strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...