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...appears that Seattle's A. J. Ritchie and friends and their society of Jap haters (TIME, April 16) have missed several potentialities in their plan. They've got something that could be made into a big thing. Why stop at hating just Japs? Thousands of our boys will come from the Western Front hating the Germans. Ritchie could get these men together with all the whites who hate the Negroes, the gentiles who hate the Jews, the Southerners who hate the Yankees, the Northerners who hate the Miamians, the isolationists who hate the British, the Texans who hate...
...theater was watery and vast, extending from the Kurils to Jap-held Java, from the Carolines to central China. The job was vast. Thailand, Indo-China, Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies-a world in themselves-had to be cleared. China had to be freed. Before victory, Japan had to be brought to the same terms as the other Axis partner: unconditional surrender...
...chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
Kamikaze Navy. Almost simultaneously guns roared out from the U.S. ships anchored off the island. Torpedo-nosed Jap suicide boats were attacking in force. Blinding flashes filled the night as the little boats were hit and exploded. Fifteen of them were destroyed; one got through and damaged a ship...
Intelligence officers estimated that 40% of Japan's plane production was gone, that 50% of metropolitan Tokyo, 20% of Kobe and Osaka, more than 10% of Nagoya had been burned out. 6-293 have destroyed 395 Jap planes in the air, racked up another 301 probables, smashed 106 on the ground...