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...year-old battleship Arizona (Pennsylvania class, 32,600 tons), by a bomb that "literally passed down through the smokestack...
...which time the sea was brilliantly sunlit, nine Japanese planes were sighted at 10,000 feet. They flew in single file along the length of the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse. A bomb hit the catapult deck and exploded in the hangar, setting a fire below decks. The Repulse's planes, instead of being out on reconnaissance, were in hangar...
That job done, U.S. armed forces might raid Formosa, clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...action before it cuts seriously into her industrial production. Japan has abundant stockpiles of such key materials as chrome, tungsten, phosphates, copper, zinc. Most of these materials were purchased from the U.S. and Allied countries during the past few years. Said one U.S. soldier in the Philippines when a bomb dropped near him: "We sold 'em this stuff and now they're giving it back...
...past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...