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...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
...Scatter Technique. Last February the Anglo-U.S. heavies smashed German airplane production so flat that the Nazis began to disperse and hide their assembly points in small shops, hangars, garages. The Allies then promoted the German synthetic oil plants, which cannot be dispersed, to No. 1 target priority. The result, plus the loss of oilfields in Poland and Rumania, so parched the Nazis for oil that the Battle of France found them making heavy use of bicycles and horses. But the target switch gave German air production a chance to stage a slow, steady comeback. Allied experts now place...
...artillery and infantry are skillful at joint action. It is important for us to devise plans that will tempt the enemy to scatter and waste his fire...
...Seattle, the Vice President was winding up a West Coast tour on behalf of what he calls the "ageless New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 21). Without pausing to aim his scatter-guns, Henry Wallace fired from both hips. Cried he: "Wall Street and the Wall Street stooges . . . [are] safely sitting on top of the country. . . . [But] the people can, at any time they wish, throw the American Fascists out of control. . . ." The temperate New York Times asked sharply: "Who are the 'stooges' of Wall Street? . . . Who are these American Fascists? If they exist, Mr. Wallace should present us with...
...Scatter his enemies...