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...even the 8% it was still possible to import did not sound dependable: 6% came from Ceylon—a long haul through Jap-infested waters—and the other 2% from Africa and Latin America...
Coral Sea. In the harbor of Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, the Jap ships lay like dozing ducks when Lieut. Commander Joseph Taylor, of Danville, Ill., saw them through the early-morning clouds. Over his inter-plane radio he called to the leader of a companion squadron: "Bill, you hit 'em high...
With the imminent possibility of a Jap bombing raid hanging over their heads, San Franciscans last week felt a strange, pleasant exhilaration. Oldtimers who saw the 1906 earthquake said that nothing the Japs could do would compare with that. Ever-optimistic Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said: "Why worry? No bombs have fallen...
City-dwellers, only fairly prepared for night raids, poorly prepared for day raids (when Japs usually come), short on defense equipment, still needing 10,000 fire-watchers, nevertheless hoped-in a way-that Jap raiders would come to San Francisco first. They were sure San Franciscans could take it better than Los Angelenos...
...late as last March, civilians shrugged off any preparation as a nuisance. When the returns came in from the Far Pacific, they began to buckle down. When Brigadier General James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo, they worked a little faster, got a little more tense. When War Secretary Stimson predicted Jap face-saving raids as a certainty, civilian volunteers began to hold nightly drills. The Coast went on a 24-hour alert...