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There were other reminders of Japanese rule. Young men were off fighting as guerrillas. There were very young children, now, whose eyes had a marked and curious slant. Stories of Jap cruelty were told and retold: of the nuns forced at bayonet point to undress and be photographed. And in many a town, signs like "Banzai Restaurant" were visible through the hastily-slapped-on coats of fresh paint...
Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
...Late. Within three hours, the ships were unloaded and beginning to pull out. Then the Jap air force struck, with substantial numbers but in small groups. Overhead now were Army Lightnings, and they had fighting to do. Only after nine hours were the Japs finally driven off. But they had done some damage. One flaming Jap plane flew five miles before it crashed into a U.S. destroyer. Another destroyer was torpedoed and sunk; an APD (World War I destroyer converted to serve as a fast transport) also was sunk. The crews were rescued...
...With two years of high school, the average Jap soldier is as well educated as the average G.I. and in at least one respect a lot better. Almost half of all Jap soldiers have studied English; almost one-fourth of them can speak English "efficiently...
...There are at least 4,000,000 of him. U.S. soldiers have killed a "minimum of 277,000" (according to OWI). U.S. dead in the Pacific war total 21,000-a ratio of 1-to-13. Since 1937 Jap losses in dead are estimated at 850,000. More than a quarter of a million are now "isolated in island pockets," bypassed by the U.S. drive to the west. But there are still plenty of reserves. Japan can train and equip 2,000,000 more soldiers without hurting war production...