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Energy in Training. The Japs have learned war by rote. They train endlessly, until they have memorized all they should know. Officers are unsparing in training their men, to a point which U.S. trainers would probably think insane. In 1930 naval maneuvers near Saishuto (according to a Japanese officer's article in the Spanish Revista de Aeronautica), Japan's present Commander of Combined Fleets Admiral Yamamoto, then captain of the carrier Akagi, launched 30 torpedo planes in a gale to give the men practice in heavy-weather launchings. They all launched, but not one got back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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