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Whether major damage to industrial targets had been done was a matter of lesser importance. The big thing was that now the Jap knew, as London and Chungking knew, that the war was at home. And unlike the Chinese and the British, people of Japan were apparently unprepared for the discovery...
Only British and U.S. flyers broke the quiet. R.A.F. bombers from India or Ceylon, raiding the Japs' Port Blair in the Andamans, wrecked a nest of Jap flying boats. From India, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton sent U.S. Flying Fortresses 750 miles to Rangoon, where they bombed troopships arriving to reinforce the Japs in Burma (see p. 22). Evidently, the Japs did not control all the air all the time...
...given that help without sending a ship into the Bay. The Pacific Fleet, based on Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...
...this game of naval balances battleships may still count heavily, and in the Pacific the Japs have more battleships to start with than the U.S. has. Before Dec. 7, they had at least twelve and were building at least three more monsters of somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 tons. They have lost at least one (the old Haruna). So the Japs probably have eleven battleships in service today-considerably more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from...
...costliest American shortage in the Battle of Bataan was revealed last week: quinine (see p. 71). There was no more medicine to fight malaria, and in the long run malaria put more soldiers out of action than the Jap...