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...Three Armies. In actual fighting there are two armies opposed to the Japs, with two distinct ways of fighting. The Australians, undoubtedly the most experienced jungle fighters in the United Nations forces, have the knowledge to beat the Jap but have been fighting bitterly now for three months, twice across the Owen Stanley Mountains, and are tired and battered in everything but spirit. The Americans are comparatively fresh, probably much fresher than the Japs, but this is their baptism by fire, and no tougher baptism could be imagined...
...Only 105 Jap planes-probably from two carriers-were required to defeat the U.S. Navy & Army, There were, the Navy estimated, 21 torpedo planes, 48 dive-bombers, 36 horizontal bombers...
...Naval anti-aircraft shot down 28 Jap planes, Army pursuit planes "over 20." Total: about half the Jap planes that hit Pearl Harbor. (Many officers who were at Pearl Harbor believe few, if any, Jap planes ever reached their carriers. The tanks of some of those shot down did not carry enough gasoline to return; some that got away were streaming gasoline when they left...
...What? If Pearl Harbor was worse than some of the "wild rumors" that had been circulating in the U.S. for a year, it was certainly worse than the Japanese imagined. At first the Jap communiques claimed the destruction of only two battleships, damage to four others and to four cruisers. Whereas the Jap claimed destroying only 100 planes, he actually got 177. Tokyo radio continually revised its claims in the ten days following the raid, until the claims exceeded actual damage (example: 464 planes claimed...
...Jap obviously did not know immediately what later must have caused him to gnash his teeth: if he had brought his fleet in behind his 105 planes, he could have seized Hawaii. If Hawaii had fallen into his clutches, the Jap would have been close to winning the war in its first week...