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Death & Poverty. But the fact was that the U.S. was engaged in no phony war. At that moment out on the Pacific the Jap and U.S. Fleets were smashing at each other in a death lock; squadrons of the finest young American men were taking off carrier decks and off land bases, many never to come back...
...Melbourne, Honolulu and Washington, pins moved and blue lights winked on Intelligence maps when the Japs shifted battleships, carriers and cruisers from the Bay of Bengal to the East Indies, then to home waters. Part of the Japanese main fleet moved southward toward a rendezvous at Formosa. Aircraft and light naval units suddenly withdrew from Australia's outlying islands; submarines were left to do the bulk of Jap work, take the brunt of Jap losses there...
...Army's General George Catlett Marshall knew that such a force would have assembled only for a major blow. The question was: Where? They had to apply what Admiral King last week called his doctrine of "calculated risk," placing the bulk of what they had where the Jap seemed most likely to strike, where the U.S. stood to win or lose the most. They calculated the risks and chose Midway. They put their own forces on the move. Then they waited. On June 3, at 9 a.m., P.W.T., the waiting ended-and the first Jap blow...
...first the Japanese struck lightly. Four bombers and some 15 fighters from a lurking carrier fired a few warehouses. Later scouting planes appeared, but dropped no bombs. Apparently all the Jap planes returned to their carrier, indicating little if any air defense at Dutch Harbor. Then the perennial rains and fogs of the Aleutians shrouded Dutch Harbor. The tense U.S. supposed that the Japs had hit & run, but at week's end, Admiral King announced: "Action in the Aleutians is still continuing...
Reducing Zero. He carried model airplanes with him. At mess, at recreation, on the field, he fished them out, put them through fighting maneuvers, figured out play after mass play to outsmart the Jap. He analyzed the enemy's crack Zero fighter, reduced its performance to ten or eleven categories (climb, speed, firepower, etc.). Beside that record he set the performance of the old P-40, decided the P-40 was superior in two or three categories. He concentrated on these categories, and no A.V.G. man thenceforth tried to compete with the Zero except in power plays Chennault laid...