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...Jap are planning,¶then how dares...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
...good generals obey orders. General MacArthur asked only for time-time to plan the strategy to meet the next expected Jap attack (see p. 20), time to transfer his command to lean, competent Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry officer who knows all the tricks of Bataan defense...
MacArthur in Australia meant that the U.S. had chosen its spot to concentrate against the Jap (see p. 18). To the limits of its manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...
...Navy repaid in kind. In a single week (ending March 6), U.S. submarines in the western Pacific sank one big Jap destroyer, one large naval tanker; hit and "definitely put out of action" one Jap aircraft carrier, three cruisers. U.S. guns, torpedoes and bombs had sunk 138 Jap vessels to date, sunk or damaged 20 Japanese cruisers-almost half of Japan's known cruiser strength...