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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...available sources of 1,000,000 tons a month, with total reserves of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons. The barest minimum requirement for the home front is 700,000 tons a month. The remainder, 300,000 tons or less, is not enough to wage large-scale, fast-moving, mechanized, offensive...
...Japanese had taken strong offensive steps, great risks, with a threefold purpose of establishing: 1) a defensive outpost;* 2) a base threatening potential supply routes to Russia's eastern frontier; 3) the first step on a stairway'that might lead to large-scale offensive action against the continental...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...
...proof went on. Luckily for her enemies, Japan had her battleship admirals too. At Midway the Jap Fleet poked into the range of land-based aircraft, and for the first time in history, on such a scale, naval power with imposing air support met naked air power. It was the carriers again that took the beating. When the Jap turned back, minus two, and perhaps four, of his floating airdromes, airmen could ask some pertinent questions: What price carriers when aircraft get up (as they will next year) to ranges of 10,000 miles, with bomb loads of 25 tons...
...reprisals in kind: the total destruction of several German villages from the air. "To my mind," said he, "it should be ten teeth for one and ten eyes for one." As a matter of arithmetic, that seemed reasonable enough, since the Germans do their own reprisal work on the scale of a hundred eyes for one tooth. The question remained whether Allied reprisals would be morally justified—and whether they would do any good...