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Beyond Wake lies the next pier in the Pacific bridge - Guam, which Congress long refused to fortify for fear of offending Japan. Today Guam less than 1,500 miles from Japan, is being outfitted as another of the U.S.'s intermediate Pacific air stations, and an advanced Fleet base to boot...
Attack. The U.S. was on the move elsewhere in the Pacific. More contractors and new material were being rushed to Guam for construction of a base only 1,500 miles from Yokohama. At Wake, new runways began to ring the lagoon. On Midway Islands, one runway was complete and ready for planes, one enormous hangar sparkled new in the sun. Soon a great bomber runway would be casting up far-sweeping silver-winged planes that could reach the heart of Japan...
Chances for a U.S. victory, implies Puleston, are very bright providing 1 ) we maintain our naval superiority, 2) our fleet is kept concentrated (either in the Atlantic or Pacific) until the two-ocean navy is completed, 3) Singapore, Guam and Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...
...British forces in East Asia, arrived for military conference with boot-tough U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, chief of the Asiatic Fleet; elegant General Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army; and High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre. On a Pacific Clipper, Manila-bound over the Midway-Wake-Guam steppingstone islands, flew Dr. E. N. van Kleffens, The Netherlands' Foreign Minister, to confer on the defense of the East Indies...
During his seven terms in the House, the Minnesota Congressman has advocated a two-ocean navy, has plumped loud & long for U. S. defense measures, from fortifying Guam to building a larger air force. Year ago he horrified the Navy's high command by proposing that they build some 80,000-ton battleships-two and a half times bigger than their mightiest dreadnoughts...