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...February 1942 when Brigadier General Ira Clarence Eaker stepped from a transatlantic Clipper onto British soil. Eaker had with him a handful of aides, a paper commission and a plan. The plan foresaw the day when the Eighth, with Britain's R.A.F., would be able to overwhelm Ger man defenses and hollow out the German war effort from within...
...This is far from the case. We are just getting well started. The great battles lie ahead. We have yet to be proven in the agony of enduring heavy casualties, as well as the reverses which are inevitable in war. What we need now is a stoic determination to overwhelm the enemy, cost what...
...honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...
...there had to be dispersal, only dispersal-in-strength could beat the enemy on his fronts. The U.S. Navy and Marines in the Pacific had found enough ships, men and planes to overwhelm the thinly extended Japs in the Solomons. MacArthur and his Australians were ready with enough troops to set back, perhaps defeat, the Japs in New Guinea. Even the Chinese, supported by a small U.S. air force, had concentrated enough power to take full advantage of Jap withdrawals in Chekiang and Kiangsi. Plainly the Japs were suffering more from their dispersals than the Allies suffered at the points...
...Production lags and announcement of raw material and steel shortages in the U.S. (see p. 13). These meant, said Goebbels, that the U.S. could never overwhelm the Axis with the weight of industrial power...