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...Meaning of Victory. Before and at Midway the Jap had certainly lost six carriers, almost surely had lost a seventh. Two more had been damaged. In return he could count one U.S. carrier (Lexington) sunk, another gravely damaged...
...enemy had been badly hurt, and he was ill-equipped to replace his losses at the rate the U.S. could. Sea power in the Pacific had been leveled in the Coral Sea; at Midway the balance-slight as it was-had gone to the U.S. Now the Jap, looking at new carriers coming off U.S. ways, at aircraft production he could not hope to approach, could worry...
Thus the Navy, in a profit-&-loss communiqué last week, summed the Jap's accomplishments in six weeks of Alaskan warfare. To the U.S. it was some reassurance that things had not gone worse on a front from which news had come chiefly in complaints about the weather that sounded suspiciously like alibis. But still unanswered, even by implication, were such questions as: 1) Can the Japs be dislodged soon? 2) Is Alaska strong enough to withstand an invasion...
...Plus. Tallied by U.S. forces in that time were three Jap destroyers and one transport sunk; four cruisers, three destroyers, a gunboat and another transport damaged; seven enemy aircraft, possibly several others, destroyed. Any Japanese plan for a swift knockout blow to the main U.S. naval base in Alaska had been thwarted. But though Alaska stood firm, it was at a price...
...Alaska in a drum-tight censorship. The U.S. could only speculate on how many men and how much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...