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Kentucky's Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler reiterated his contention that the Jap was U.S. enemy No. 1. that a major offensive should be launched in the Pacific, that the Administration should give General Douglas MacArthur more support...
Before the three admirals lay the conquest of the world's greatest ocean. For almost two months Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...rough Tsushima Straits, where two-decker, train-carrying ferries ply between Japan and Korea, an Allied submarine up-periscoped, unleashed a torpedo. The missile stabbed the flank of a Jap steamer. Said the Tokyo radio: the steamer went down in "seconds," with loss of 544 persons aboard...
...crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. raid in Tokyo...
...question, Where is the Jap fleet?, Naval Expert Alexander Kiralfy, writing in the October issue of Foreign Affairs, made an illuminating answer: The Jap theory of sea power differs radically from the U.S. or British theory as classically defined by Admiral Mahan...