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...survivors of the 9,000 American troops and 27,000 Filipinos fell into the hands of the Jap-all of them U.S. soldiers and U.S. losses. Alongside troops from the mainland, Tagalog and Moro and Igorot had fought just as bravely, died just as tight-lipped and with just as little fuss as their white comrades. It took that fighting and those deaths to make the U.S. know that the men from the Islands were their brothers and their equals...
...navies of the United Nations, convoying, fighting subs, mixing in swirling battles with the Jap in the Indian Ocean, watching a hundred naval rat holes from Trondheim to Surabaya, this concentration of the German surface fleet had a sinister look...
...Jap. German naval strategy had partly brought about this change, but only partly. Her submarines had forced the Allied fleets to spread themselves thin, searching for the answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...
...biggest part of the change had been brought about by the Jap. He had engaged the mighty U.S. Fleet, but in the Pacific; and from his coldly brilliant attack on Pearl Harbor to his thrust into the Indian Ocean he had stretched the U.S. Fleet thin, halfway around the world. More than that, he had snatched the British Far Eastern bases, and was now sucking British units toward India to head off the final rupture of the Empire. Meanwhile the Italians, who still had nuisance value, were-with the help of German airmen-holding other great British units...
...keep the German in check, the British had to short-change their forces against the Jap. Like a bridge team caught with fat hands between two opponents with bare suits and plenty of small trumps, the United Nations were being whipsawed into the imminent danger of losing their contract...