Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared that the Jap attack on Dutch Harbor was more than a reconnaissance, more than an attempt to draw U.S. forces from some other point. It was an end in itself, an effort to seize a foothold for a later drive on the inner Aleutians, the Alaskan mainland and their invaluable bases for long-range U.S. air assaults on Japan-or for Japanese assault on the northwestern...
...planes assaulted Midway Island in the mid-Pacific, 1, 300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor. Midway was worth a Japanese gamble ; only Pearl Harbor was more vital to U.S. operations in the Pacific. And, in Japanese hands, Midway could be a steppingstone to Pearl Harbor, Alaska and the U.S. mainland...
...time that the public got prepared not to be surprised. Every military man knew that the U.S. mainland could not long escape its first air raid. Last week the government served explicit warning...
...planes were picked up one day by U.S. anti-aircraftsmen. They were at 30,000 feet and they were away before pursuit could get up and after them. Australia looked harder at its own defenses on that side. If the Jap once got past the minefields between the mainland and 1,260-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, eastern Australia would be an inviting place for him to land...
...wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...