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...Japs have never believed in seeking out the enemy fleet for decisive battle. The mission of their navy has not been to gain "command of the seas" but to transport troops and protect the Imperial Army's supply lines. Mr. Kiralfy suggests that this goes back to Japan's origins, the Japs being a nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed...
Comments Mr. Kiralfy: "The main [Jap] battle force [is] to be withheld as a last reliance, and then to engage only under highly favorable circumstances...
...last week, as the Fourteenth announced a routine score-33 Jap planes destroyed, 14 probables, two U.S. fighters lost in eight days-visitors to the China theater saw impressive progress from this most unusual of the war's fighting forces. No war had been won. The Jap still bombed outlying fields. Occasionally he punched at main bases and pocketed his losses. The best the Fourteenth could still do was to contain...
...when the enemy, simply by flying over China's amazingly efficient warning net, could suck U.S. aircraft aloft and by that deed alone strike a heavy blow in the expenditure of precious U.S. fuel. On the P-40s, the Mitchell bombers and the handful of big Liberators, tiny Jap flags were growing in number. And the U.S. death list was not growing forbiddingly long...
Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked...