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Bataan was gone; in the Pacific the Jap was everywhere; the U.S. faced its darkest spring. But the country was finding itself. If more defeats came, they would be endured. For those who had eyes to see, out of the dead, defeated days a new nation was rising...
Bataan finally fell. In a military sense the big news meant that 150,000-200,000 Jap fighters were now released, to be used on other fronts. But that was not the fact that struck home to the U.S. Not until the last burned-out man put down his rifle on the soil of a Bataan that was now Japanese did Americans learn their lesson...
Bataan taught America a humiliating thing, too: that U.S. soldiers could be beaten, could be taught the fullest ignominy of unconditional surrender. And they could be given this lesson by the funny, myopic, bucktoothed, bandylegged, pint-sized Jap-who, it suddenly appeared, was taut-muscled, courageous, vastly menacing...
...Jap had not changed. He was the same fellow who ran the curio shop in Rockefeller Center, or fished off California's coast. What had changed was a U.S. state of mind almost as old as the Republic. Before Pearl Harbor there was only one world to U.S. citizens. The world, the only world that Americans believed in or cared about, was the U.S. The rest of mankind was in an American sense, unreal. The American might-and did-throng the tourist spots like London and Paris, "discover" Bali or the Dalmatian Coast, but he could never quite believe...
Another time, chased by a big Jap ship, they raced into a dark rain squall. When they came out, the ship was still after them. They circled furiously, doubled back; it looked, this time, as though the game...