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...implement the President's promises and to counteract Jap propaganda, a bill was introduced in Congress last week by Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings. It would give the Filipinos their independence not in 1946, but "completely and forthwith...
Pacific Ways. Many units of the British Fleet, once desperately occupied in the Mediterranean, could now steam east to the Pacific front. British warships manned by veteran crews could be thrown against the Jap supply lines. To protect those lines the Jap fleet was already spread too thin...
...Burma. His objectives: 1) a strong position in the rear flank of Japan's southern empire; 2) the Burma Road, over which supplies could be punched through to China; 3) possibly Malaya and Singapore, which could be exploited again as a naval base from which to harry the Jap lines to The Netherlands East Indies...
From Honolulu, Admiral Chester Nimitz could attack with carrier forces and amphibious troops across the central Pacific, seizing bases from which the Navy could get athwart Japan's communications with her southern holdings. The other Navy objective: to seek out the Jap and destroy him. Supplementary to Nimitz's drive, but more as a diversion than a major operation, planes could attack Jap outposts from the Aleutians...
This more or less supplementary role was not MacArthur's idea (see p. 35). His strategy and ambition was to drive for the Philippines, with the U.S. Navy supporting him, knocking out flanking Jap island bases on the way, bypassing those which were too far eastward to cause him trouble...