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Enemy's Round. The Jap had achieved command of the air by the end of the war's second week. Close to his air bases, he had poured inferior aircraft south to Luzon, and by numbers taken a toll of better U.S. planes. He had also established three Luzon beachheads, apparently with airdromes: at Legaspi, Aparri, Vigan. Then he opened the battle's second phase...
...came an announcement : Wake was taken; it had been defended by 3,000 officers and men. To Jimmie Devereux-whom his civilian friends knew as an affable gentleman jockey, whom Marines knew as a studious, hard-fighting professional-and to the 378 Marines, alive and dead, of his command, the Jap had paid a fitting tribute...
...enemy had subsequently been overestimated. A week after the attack, many people had mentally surrendered Singapore. Now, with the arrival of British Indian reinforcements, with Dutch help, with news that casualties in the first week were not as bad as originally thought, and above all with the change of command, the feeling was that the Jap would have a hard time catching Singapore...
Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...
...submarines off the California coast sank but one U.S. vessel, damaged two, cleanly missed six. The Japanese could blame the poor marksmanship of their crews, the alertness of U.S. bomber patrols and the agility of their prey. U.S. defenses steadily improved. A Christmas Day communique credited a Western Defense Command bomber with two "apparently direct hits" on an enemy submarine, and bombers were said to have been in action on at least two other occasions. But one element of U.S. defense was woefully inadequate: none of the attacked ships was armed...