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Sirs: Why shouldn't all of us admit our respective parts in the Pearl Harbor disaster? It was common knowledge that "we can knock out the Jap Navy in two weeks," and that complacent attitude, plus that of the must-not-offenders, plus those who fought even inadequate preparedness, gave the Japs their opportunity...
...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...
...Navy's planemakers, Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. was, as expected, in good health. After the Jap surrender, Grumman stopped making its famed Hellcat and laid off all of its 22,000 workers, then hired some 5,000 back. By last week, Grumman was shaken down to production of two Navy pursuit ships, the Bearcat and the Tigercat. They still have Navy orders for production at a rate of 75 a month. This was far below Grumman's war peak of 658 planes a month but well above their best peacetime volume...
...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...
Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...