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...LeMay believed that the Japs would be susceptible to surprise, and he calculated shrewdly. Jap antiaircraft could shoot down an occasional plane at 30,000 feet, but their flak was weak and ineffective at one-fifth the height. Besides, they were no longer putting many fighters in the air-a vital factor in his later calculations...
...splitting of the already weakened Jap forces meant that the Philippine campaign was close to its end. A captured Jap war correspondent said that the remaining troops were so poorly armed and so near starvation that only iron discipline backed by harsh courts-martial kept them in the firing line. He reported that soldiers fought and often murdered comrades for food. U.S. patrols found growing evidence of cannibalism...
Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...Falalop was small, even for a sandspit, but a 3,300-ft. airstrip was carved out of it. Marine fighter planes moved in to protect the $20 billion worth of ships against Jap raiders. Navy planes were landed there as carrier battle replacements, and a transport-plane shuttle service to Guam and Peleliu was started...
Later, if not now, some Jap like Okada would have to emerge and show Japan the way to the end. That man might remind the Japanese of one of their proverbs: "To be beaten...