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Time to Talk. The timing of the statement has not been set. In general, it is considered that it should coincide with a major military blow. Thus Jap militarists could not interpret the statement as a sign of U.S. weakening or war-weariness...
...Japs decided not to fight: not a single Zeke or Jack, Tony or Nick rose to challenge the U.S. fighters as they swooped on the airfields. It was a bombing and strafing job: 109 Jap planes were wrecked on the ground; 231 more were hit. The CAP boys over the fleet had better airmen's luck-two Jap reconnaissance planes had turned up to be shot down...
...hours the guns roared, and their shellbursts walked through the steel plant. The Jap reply from shore batteries was only a whispered echo. The "sacred soil" of Japan, from which the Kamikaze (divine wind) was supposed to disperse all attackers, had been violated...
...Come & Get Me." Headlong Admiral Halsey had another ambition. When the fleet got back to respectable strength and the Jap radio still tauntingly asked "Where is Halsey?" he had exclaimed: "I'd like to send a signal giving my latitude & longitude, and dare 'em to come and get me. But Nimitz won't let me." Last week, Fleet Admiral Nimitz still omitted to mention the latitude & longitude, and named only a small part of the strength of Task Force 38. But it was a fair and fearful sample...
When war came to the Pacific in 1941, Halsey, a vice admiral and commander of aircraft carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement...