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...Jap attacked before sunup. One dramatic shot shows U.S. troops raising the flag at reveille while the smoke of battle rises beyond. The flag did not come down. This was an American epic...
...confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
Maybe. None but the Jap knows whether he will attack India when the monsoon ends and the steaming, water-clogged delta lands of the Brahmaputra valley begin to dry. But a quick successful thrust at Calcutta could cripple 70% of India's war effort. From the Andaman Islands the Jap could crack by sea and air at the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon, at Madras and at Calcutta...
...attacks might be hit & run. Last spring's Battle of Ceylon may have made the Jap cautious. A land invasion presents greater difficulties for greater gain and would cut off the last practical land supply route to China...
...Jap had taken railroads. He found that he had to guard them, with men placed in sight of one another, or else a bomb or tools in the hands of fast-working coolies would wash the rails away. The Jap seized whole provinces, and found his kind of peace in the towns where he made his headquarters. But where he had to spread thin he found endless strife and the sniping of the guerrilla. There were not enough soldiers in the Japanese Army to hold the tides over which the enemy had raised his flag...