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...Russia, where artillery blazed and bayonets gleamed along a 2,000-mile front, the global war was in a stage of logistics (the transport, quartering and supply of troops). It seemed unearthly quiet, incredibly menacing, after the German's noisy, bloody advance across the steppes, after the Jap's swift dash past Manila and Singapore into the Indies...
Wake. The task force crept up before dawn on Feb. 24. Before the sun had burst up out of the sea behind low-hanging clouds, the planes were launched, the force advanced, deployed, put into action. The Jap was caught snoozing...
...force sailed west and north. At dawn, eight days later, it stood off Marcus Island. Well down behind the horizon, the task force launched its planes and headed for home. The men on the ships had to follow the action by listening to the U.S. planes' radio. The Jap put up no fight, except from his antiaircraft, launched not a single plane. Marcus, important as a Jap supply base and link between Japan and the Mandates, got a pounding that should take weeks to repair...
Today the U.S. Navy, busy on the biggest shipbuilding program in the world's history is at work on ships-battleships, cruisers and carriers-whose design has been radically changed since the keels were laid. How they have been changed is a military secret, for the Jap and the German to learn at their own expense...
...Patriotism is surely something more than knowing verbatim the Pledge of Allegiance. . . . It's the feeling that you get when you hear that Jap planes are about to bomb San Francisco and you feel that if you could just get a plane you'd go up and give those yellow devils a taste of their own medicine...